Quotes About Change

But it's better to loosen up as you go or you risk turning brittle.

And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

it is not menopause itself that is the problem but menopause as its experienced under the patriarchy.

He was a stranger here too; he noticed his accent had softened and his expectations of people had hardened.

To have been always what I am; and so changed from what I was

I don't know how others reconcile what happened before with what happens now. For me, the past is a cool, dark pond in which I will always stand partially submerged. That's just the way it is.

You want to be sure you're working for someone who will advocate on your behalf and isn't going to try to keep you in your same old spot—out

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.

The end result of all this was that many of us, by middle age, arrived at the state we were trying most to avoid: we bored our husbands, who had done their fair share in helping reduce us to this condition, and they wandered off to younger, greener pastures.

It's hard to remake decisions and even harder to rethink nondecisions. Sometimes you don't really decide, you just move forward, and that is what I did—moved forward blindly and mindlessly into a new and unknown life.

He was parsimonious in the extreme. Once, when we were together at an airport, I asked him for a dime to make a phone call. He started to walk some distance to get change for a quarter. "Warren," I exclaimed, "the quarter will do," and he sheepishly handed it over.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

You can't change the music of your soul. —In Esquire, 1967

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

The past is never where you think you left it.

The past is never where you think you left it: you are not the same person you were yesterday—oh

Most people seem to turn off at some point in their lives. Maybe it's thirty or forty. For most people it's lots younger. They stop there. Stop growing or changing or learning or something. From that point on they're dead.

Things were slipping on me — oranges at first — then everything.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it too late to go back, she had left him stranded there - like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

Jess followed, still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. They watched the bus roar off.