Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

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.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!

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

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.

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

I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It's the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

I'm only good at transitions in—not transitions out.

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive.

We all deal with change differently.

After being on the field for so long and feeling like you have some control over the outcome or what's happening out there, now I'm upstairs, and I have no control over anything. I'm working through that.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

​​​​​​You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.

I'm kind of forced to get out of what might feel more natural and comfortable.