Sharon Shinn Quotes

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

Change and renewal are themes in life, aren't they? We keep growing throughout life.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

I've been through a lot of changes.

Anything new that happens, we shift and we change and we grow.

Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

Change and everything will change for you.

This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Different time, different place,” I said. “Things can change. People can change.