Carolyn Kizer Quotes

You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The thing I miss about performing is being with people.

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

I think that when somebody, when people really have a connection with each other, they change each other. You become a different person, hopefully a better person, because of it.

What I mean is this: you meet someone, you think about them. You're already changing because of the way you think about them. You meet them again, you think about them some more, you're changing again. And on it goes. You are changing right now. Before my eyes.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

I love giving the energy and getting the energy back. There is nothing like it.

On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a sweet return.

When success comes, it changes everything, so I'm interested in portraying what that's like, and I think I have a lot of connection with that.

You speak to be understood, right? And you're understood so you can be felt. And you're felt so you can get what you want.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

The emotional side of humans interacting with each other is what makes TaskRabbit what it is.

There is a certain immortality in the change that another person effects on another person.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

I'm getting to use my platform as the Bachelorette - on my season - to really make change through my experience.

I saw what was wonderful about human companionship. Before that, I was quite content to be alone, to be a solitary wandering person, and I thought I always would be. Love changed that.

Honestly, I think people change after meeting someone you love.

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience where, in one way, you are still very much yourself, and in some ways you become even more connected to the rest of yourself. All of a sudden, you just get more connected to your child self, and your teenage self, and all these selves that you've maybe been abandoning at every date post that you pass.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.