"I forget the last time I felt brave; I just recall insecurity... But I don't need a telescope to see that there's hope, and that makes me feel brave."
Everything is changing.
Literally,
every.
thing.
Like, everything that's not nailed down to the floor of my life is being uprooted. And in some cases the things nailed down are shifting about as well. And I don't know what to do with it. I don't know what else to do but go along with the tide. I mean, the tide's going in a good direction, it seems. The direction being college and well, the rest of my life. Guess that has to happen at some point. So I think I'm just going to place some quotes here about change, as change is what really what seems to define my life right now. And I like quotes.
"The only thing about life that never changes is change." Don't know who said that, but curses upon them for being right.
"Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become."
"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." --Arnold Bennett
"We are not the same persons this year as last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." --William Somerset Maugham
"When you're finished changing, you're finished." --Benjamin Franklin
"The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's 'own' or 'real' life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life." --C.S. Lewis
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another." --Anatole France
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." --Harold Wilson
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." --C.S. Lewis
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." --Alan Watts
"Things do not change; we change." --Henry David Thoreau
"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler." --Denis Waitley
"The birds are molting. If only man could molt also-- his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions." --James Allen
"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them." --Marcel Proust
"We would rather be ruined than changed; we would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die." --W.H. Auden
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward." --Ellen Glasgow
"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased with what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself, there you have remained. Keep adding; keep walking; keep advancing." --St. Augustine
"Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax; the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
Tomorrow be today." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hm. At least God doesn't change. I'm glad that He's far above humanity and our silly flutterings. We're short-lived and have no permanent home on this Earth, like autumn leaves blown about by the wind..
Vanessa. ((
