quotes about change and moving on

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. ~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8



Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ~Henry Van Dyke



Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive. ~Author Unknown



Sewing forever, housework whenever. ~Author Unknown



Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings



Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



"I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Tea is a cup of life. ~Author Unknown



George Washington is one of the beacons placed at intervals along the highroad of history. ~Orestes Ferrara



Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. ~Saint Thomas Aquinas



A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, "A Holy Mess," 1982



One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ~Walter Bagehot



It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. ~Raymond Chandler



The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks



When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6



When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk



If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. ~Voltaire



The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.... The computer resembles the magic of legend in this respect, too. If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program. ~Frederick Brooks



As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. ~Proverbs 23:7



Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger