#hang

I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#eat-pray-love #elizabeth-gilbert #life #change

Percy: I’ll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids’ head into the toilets. It’s nice that some things never change. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#everyone #funny #normal #change

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#writing #change

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person that you will ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. And thank God for it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#soul-mates #change

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat! ↗

— Clare B. Dunkle

#shapeshifters #change

I will never, never be the same. I have seen stars. Real stars. ↗

— Beth Revis

#space #stars #change

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#forget #time #change

I had privately changed 'This, too, shall pass' into 'You, too, shall die'. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#change

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention. ↗

— Jane Hirshfield

#change

Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#pregnancy #change