Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.

The world is changing. I'm trying to adjust to it, just like everyone else.

It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.

When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

For the world has changed, and we must change with it

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

When times change, so must we.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

I just can't get used to life.