Sandra Brown Quotes

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.

I believe that there are moments in everyone's lives where a door flings open, and if you're terrified of what's on the other side, you must walk through it.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'

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.

The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.