Quotes about Change

I realize it's not the best timing-it's only been a month, but life isn't about waiting for perfect timing. If you're not careful, life happens while your stuck in a holding pattern

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

Well, you know how a river moves a mountain." The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming from. "Stone by stone," she finished.

Grief and a change of location can often be more than the mind and body can handle.

woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future. The

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

You can't impact something you don't touch.

I leaf through more pages, wondering, remembering, thinking about this watershed year. Life can turn on a dime. The appointment book reinforces my new awareness of this. We plan our days, but we don't control them.

No matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future.