Nia Vardalos Quotes

Change, like healing, takes time.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

Ugliness has been allowed too long. It is time to act.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

Everything changed after Katrina. It's a new New Orleans now and I think it's better. It was a wake-up call and it rebuilt and cleaned up the city. It all happened for a reason. I'm now grateful for Katrina.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

A little makeover never hurt nobody.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.

Out of these ashes beauty will rise.

In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn't! It's in the mind - how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It's in our feelings. It's in our body.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

Acceptance is the road to all change.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.