Debbie Ford Quotes

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.

Life is about seasons, and I think you got to know the seasons.

For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.

So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

I think everybody has the capacity for change.

I am forever learning and changing.

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.

I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

On a personal level, change is a hard thing for me.

It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.