Quotes About Change

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

Never know how you feel about someone until they die and come back.

Still. No resolution ever. None. Nothing decided, nothing finished. The Dipper wheels back into place. Just one turn. One turn of the wheel and we are different, never the same. Not ever. Not even those stars. Even they, they decay, collapse, coalesce, break apart. Close my eyes.

One thing we are learning to be sure of: life does not get less strange.

life was about being agile in spirit and adapting quickly.

One of the things that happens to people as they get older, and especially to women on the other side of middle age, is that people forget to notice.

I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.

It was the best time of the year. Frost at night and warm, sunny days, when the yellows and oranges of the aspen and cottonwoods did something to the blue of the sky behind them that an artist might never mimic.

Magical. I mean to watch a person let go of something and flower.

A husk of herself that had been a barrier I hadn't even been aware of. And in the sloughing off, she opened and flowered. Corny, huh? Not really. Magical. I mean to watch a person let go of something and flower. I wouldn't know what it is she let go of.

Sometimes I catch myself being a person I wouldn't tolerate for five minutes at my own kitchen table. Being a thoughtless, self-centered jerk.

was swiftly plain that life in After Covid Britain would be enduringly different from Before Covid Britain.

I looked at the terraced hills and noticed how the people had changed the earth, taming it into dizzying staircases of rice paddies; but the Chinese looked at the people and saw how they have been shaped by the land.

Sometimes they seemed to grasp instinctively at the worst of both worlds: the worst modern habits, the worst traditional beliefs.

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

the balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option.

If you became blind," I said, "if you were used to finding your way around a house and then, suddenly, one day had an accident--was attacked or something--and became blind, only then would you actually notice the furniture. It would always have been there, but you would never have been aware of it, you would just have gone around it. Only when something becomes hard to cope with do you see it. That's how you become aware of time--when it becomes hard to cope with.

Heart-level honesty in the presence of God postures us for change.

It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality.

Scheme against your most sacred principles in thought, word and deed…. The only clear view is from atop a mountain of your dead selves.

Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind.

An excessive emphasis on invention, rather than on adoption, is a major factor in the low success rate of innovation. The diagram of figure 1.1 compares invention and innovation as practices.

the uprising of the sons of Canaan fueled by a long-standing

The world is changing and people don't like change.