Patricia Briggs Quotes

Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?

I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

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

When we believe we are losing control, we grab on tight. When our greatest fear comes upon us, we clench our fist and teeth, close our eyes and hold on. We must learn how to let go. When the time comes for growth and change, we must have the courage and faith to let go. Whatever leaves my life makes room for something better.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.

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

Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

I mean, it took me a long while to realize that I wasn't gonna play football on a regular basis anymore. I still play once in a while, but that took me a long while to adjust.

It's definitely tough to get up and walk away from something you have been a part of for so long. But it's part of life.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.