Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

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

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.

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!

The dead can't change, but you can.

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

If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.'