Quotes About Change

The very essence of modernity is the fact that everything—and really everything—can be replaced by something else, which is absolutely monstrous

Comme si pendant le temps de notre vie, et moins encore, la France était en train de changer de peuple : on en voit un, on fait la sieste, c'en est un autre, ou plusieurs autres, et qui paraissent appartenir à d'autres rivages, à d'autres ciels, d'autres architectures, d'autres mœurs — c'est ce qu'ils semblent penser eux aussi.

She knelt over the grave, until her nose was touching the dirt. "When you are ready to inhabit a new skin," she said, "we will be waiting for you.

She stopped by an empty field, the soil abandoned, gone to mustard weed and grass. Lush bundles of crimson clover lined the fence. At the far end was a cluster of trees. As always, her eyes sought movement at the edge of the woods.

He was sweet as a baby, you know? Sweet as sugar. And then he hardened. I can't 'splain it another way. He was like sugar in a jar that hardens. And after a while you take it out, and it is one rock-solid lump.

Sweet as sugar. And then he hardened. I can't 'splain it another way. He was like sugar in a jar that hardens. And after a while you take it out, and it is one rock-solid lump.

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. —JEAN KERR

Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that's the problem.

Every new day is the start of a better tomorrow!

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned   W. B. Yeats 'The Second Coming

The route had been renamed after the war, Sergeant Booth had told them in the taxi. Now it was known as the Road of Remembrance. To Billy, recalling Alf Dawkins with his crutches and his nervous tick, begging for half-crowns, it seemed more a case of how quickly people forgot.

Everything's changing now. It's all patrol cars and fewer feet on the beat. I hope they know what they're doing.

I can tell I'm getting older, because I find myself using words like "spacious," "roomy," and "comfortable" when I'm buying underwear.

It used to be that my age and waist size were the same size. Unfortunately, they still are.

The truth is, we cannot just think ourselves into a new way of being; we must live ourselves into a new way of being.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. ~ Bruce Lee

APRIL 9 TAKING YOUR OWN body and mind as the laboratory, engage in some thoroughgoing research on your own mental functioning, and examine the possibility of making some positive changes within yourself.

If it's not in your best interest to continue coupling with your partner, then the universe will arrange convenient circumstances in which to help you separate.

Just because you have traveled a path doesn't mean that you are meant to be on that path forever. That path is only useful to you as long as it retains its ability to support your growth. You can only hold on to something that you've outlived for so long before the universe will take it away from you.

We are designed to love and be loved. To love what we do and be able to boldly say we are living our best life. And if you're not walking in your happiness every day, you need to change the path.

And if you're not walking in your happiness every day, you need to change the path.

Change your perspective. It could change your life.