Ernest Gaines Quotes

There is no change without sacrifice.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.

With loss comes growth.

There is no growth without change, and there is no change without loss.

Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .

In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.

And change isn't destruction. It's just change.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

I love change, I need it.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Change is not threatening.