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I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
Sep 25, 2025
Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.
True love can alter human lives and change human nature.
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world!
Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.
I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.
The key to change is to let go of fear.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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.
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.