James Branch Cabell Quotes

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.

Maybe we all change over time.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

There are lots of things about me that have changed. Some things are a process; some things take time.

Why was I going around in rhinestones before, and am now wearing a plaid shirt and glasses? It's not a question of fashion. It's a question of time and yourself. The country changed, I grew up, life changed. It's normal.

With time, everything changes. I know I'm not the same person who I used to be. I totally get that.

Everyone changes throughout the years.

Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

Time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you forward. You get over it, of course. Everyone was right about that. One mathematically insignificant day, you stop hoping for happiness and become actually happy.

Everybody is changing.

Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.

I'd come to respect the bag.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

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.

Four years and everything was the same, except me.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

Time changes every man. Unusual circumstances change them in unusual ways

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.