We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at…
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Quotes tagged ‘Change’
Everything changes, even stone.
My life needs editing.
People change and forget to tell each other.
Give people the grace to change. Don’t judge their whole life on one season, one mistake.
You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
Goals can be tweaked, modified, and changed as our lives change.
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
That’s the thing about ‘what ifs’; they don’t matter. They don’t change anything. All they do is make it unable for you to heal.
It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.
The way that a story can make change is so much faster than the way that politics can make change. You create culture that has a story in it that says something as radical as ‘trans people are people’ and then laws follow.
Life is not fixed; things are always changing. We are either becoming more of our true selves or drifting into a false self.
At any point in your story, you are free to reimagine the narrative you are living.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
The purpose of a writer is to make revolution irresistible.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
— Rumi, amazon.com