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“But, she knew, you didnt have to marry your soulmate, and you didnt even have to marry an Interesting. You didnt always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or ...”
“The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the ...”
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.”
“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.”
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.”
“Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”
“People don't resist change. They resist being changed.”
“Already things are changing; its starting with small shit but oh its starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.”
“So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense ...”
“Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, youll never stop being conscious of it. Whereve...”
“We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.”
“by the time you open your eyes, the world might have already changed.”
“Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.”
“From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe's _You Can't Go Home Again_ (1940):Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen.The ...”
“What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change...”
“Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”
