#row

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#grown #change

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#education #experiments #growth #life #mistakes

We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#mating #nawat #change

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life #change

Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there's nothing you can do except watch them. ↗

— Alden Nowlan

#life #living #change

Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. ↗

— James T. McCay

#promise #today #tomorrow #change

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#changing #growth #change

Change: How much do you want it? Change: How much do you need it? ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#change

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! ↗

— T. Harv Eker

#spiritual-growth #wealthy #change

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#crow-girls #change