Quotes About Change

People aren't the same when they've lived in India. It changes them, I've often noticed it.

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

Light tomorrow with today.

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

Well, I've said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.

Never think winter will last when spring is equally inevitable.

For everything there truly is a season; if his life's work has not taught him that, it has taught him nothing. The birth of spring, the fullness of summer, the push of glory in the fall, the quiet of winter.

one summer and they had a ride called the Whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there, and everywhere. One minute you'd be going forward, the next backward or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That's life. You're born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig.

It feels strange to see him; it's been a while. I feel as though I need to meet him all over again.

This is life, uh? We lose something here; we get something there. The trick is to stop looking in the old place to find the new thing.

What does anyone say to anybody who used to be so important in her life, whom she's not seen in such a long time? It seems to me that in situations like this, we're all wondering the same thing: I'm still me; are you still you? A

mostly, you only make a change, the balding chinese man tells me. I stare at him for a moment, uncomprehending, wondering if perhaps he is offering advice,then realize he is talking about money: I am to make change . ? Elizabeth Berg, Open House

Oh, what I want to do is hand my life over to someone else. That's all. And they could rearrange everything into something that would make sense.

Already I've seen that when you're pulled away from your normal routine, it's as though air and sunlight come into your brain and do a little housecleaning.

We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

IF YOU COULD LIVE ONE day in your life over again and change the outcome of something that happened that day, what day would it be?

When Lucille was a girl, a carnival came to town one summer and they had a ride called the Whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there, and everywhere. One minute you'd be going forward, the next backward or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That's life. You're born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig.

Martha Stewart these days. She supposes it could be a gay man, that might be a nice change.

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.

Love begins as a rhapsody and ends as a dirge.

But you know what usually happens when you take a vacation to a place that galvanizes you and makes you feel like you're going to change your life. You come home and get right back into your old habits. Meanwhile, a slow fire burns. A

YOU COULD LIVE ONE day in your life over again and change the outcome of something that happened that day, what day would it be? This is a question many people have difficulty answering. Not Iris Winters. She knows the day, and she knows exactly how she'd change what happened.

A man doesn't always make room in his life for appreciating certain things that seem to be under women's auspices, but there's a satisfaction in some of them. The toilet seat, though. Up. And there are other grim pleasures in doing things he didn't used to get to do. Cigar right at the kitchen table. Slim Jims for dinner.