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Quotes About Shift

Everything was told! Then we could begin something new.
~ Elizabeth Alexander
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.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Change the question, you know?
~ Elizabeth Berg
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. 26 Ihad shipped ahead a box of books to myself, right before I left New York to move to Italy.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Once you introduce truth into a room, the room may never be the same again.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes people just need to think about something else.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
If we do not alter with the times, the times yet alter us. We may stand perfectly still, but our surroundings shift round and we are not in the same relationship to them for long; just as a chameleon, matching perfectly the greenness of a leaf, should know that the leaf will one day fade.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
When things reach the extreme, they alternate to the opposite.
~ Alfred Huang
Our little systems have their day.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
There was this different quality to the light even only four days past the shortest day; the shift, the reversal, from increase of darkness to increase of light, revealed that a coming back of light was at the heart of midwinter equally as much as the waning of light.
~ Ali Smith
We move from one invisibility to another.
~ Ali Smith
Change is the nature of luck.
~ Ali Smith
Never mind literal climate change, there's been a whole seasonal shift. It's like walking in a blizzard all the time just trying to get to what's really happening beyond the noise and hype.
~ Ali Smith
Eras end, Paulina said. I'm Romanian. I know. They have to. So that new eras can begin.
~ Ali Smith
Everything means something quite other now.
~ Ali Smith
I wasn't any person any more.
~ Alice Notley
Change will arrive suddenly for me.
~ Alice Notley
but you were moving on: monotonous vindictive
~ Alice Oswald
Growth requires movement. And often, the only way forward is through an exit door.
~ Alicia Keys