Alice Walker Quotes

Things are constantly in flux and changing, and as crazy-making as that can be, it's also the thing that can get you through tough times - 'Well, things change.'

We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

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.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

Time takes away the grief of men.

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.