Mary Karr Quotes

I've been no stranger to change.

When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

Change is hard, but change is good.

It's hard, transitioning from one thing to another. That's with anything you do.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.

Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves.

As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes - that it changes so fast.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

How you manage change can make all the difference.

Life is one big transition.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Change is never easy.

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

Change is such hard work.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!