Quotes About Change

people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.

Everything human is evolving. Always. This includes our hearts and desires, as well as our bodies.

Maybe things always look different when we leave them, like a lover. Or a battleground. (Sometimes those are one and the same.)

The people in our lives are like cards in a deck. At different times we draw, hold, and discard, but, in the end, we don't really know the cards' value until life calls our hand.

Sometimes the evolving terrain of life requires us to evolve with it. When those times come, we usually find ourselves quivering on the precipice of change as long as we can, because no one wants to dive headlong into the ravine of uncertainty. No one. Only when the pain of being becomes too much do we close our eyes and leap.

Einstein said that insantiy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

What a peculiar alchemist is time—transforming painful experiences into comedy.

I found myself changing into the very thing I hated. That's what hate does—it remakes us in its image.

should not surprise us that, at the end of a journey, our destination looks different than we imagined at the beginning. Everything looks different up close.

It's amazing to me to see how so unexpectedly life can switch tracks to a new destination.

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

Sometimes life drives you to do entirely new things, things you never believed you could do.

the only thing you can be sure of in this life is that sooner or later everything goes wrong.

And remember this. No victory is certain. No situation is hopeless. When you find yourselves in a hopeless situation, change the rules.

Ah," he said. "If you'd been born a man, you'd be a force to reshape the world." "Only a woman can do that.

When the so-called masses are discontented, they are inspired by specific grievances that are capable of being satisfied within the existing system. Only intellectuals have universal grievances: only they believe that nothing can change unless everything changes.

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

You can't come back to something that is gone.

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.' " The Chinese engineer smiles. "Good one." " 'When is the next best time? Now.' " "Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

A great truth comes over him: Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.