Louise Erdrich Quotes

There's a bigger universe at hand.

Everybody’s vision is unique, and at different times in their lives their vision changes. It may be smaller and more personal for a while, and then it may grow larger, expanding outward to the world.

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.

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.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.

I'm really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion - that sense you find when you're traveling.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

I would like, certainly, to do different things.

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

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

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.

Change doesn't come from staying in your safe space.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

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

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

The nature of life is to grow.

When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.

I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along. I'm constantly changing my perspective on my own life. I see the past differently, and that's a wonderful thing.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.