Quotes about Change

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

Well, that was life. Gladness and pain...hope and fear...and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart...learn to love it and then let it go in turn. Spring, lovely as it was, must yield to summer and summer lose itself in autumn. The birth...the bridal...the death...