#changes

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#april #changes #december #maids #may

My Body is a wide house A commune Of bickering women, hearing their own breathing denying each other. (House of Changes) ↗

— Jeni Couzyn

#change

But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179) ↗

— Meera Syal

#loss #change

At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#change

Where there is change, there is happiness ↗

— Anamika Mishra

#changes #life #life-lessons #change

Why did they go away, do you think? If there ever were such things." "Who knows? Times change. Would you call this age a good one for unicorns?" "No, but I wonder if any man before us ever thought his time a good time for unicorns. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#changes #time #unicorn #age

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#always #befall #changes #environment #healthy

You know, through pain, you learn a lot about yourself--things you thought you never knew you wanted to learn. And it's kind of like those animals that regrow a part of their body--like a starfish. You might not feel it. You might not even want to grow, but you will. You'll grow that part that broke off, and that growing, that blooming--cannot happen without the pain. ↗

— Kelle Hampton

#growth-process #life-changes #painful-memories #beauty

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ↗

— Anatole France

#another #before #behind #changes #die

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. ↗

— Mark Twain

#changes #christian #contents #medical #practice