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21 " Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you’re not the same person you were either. "
― Haruki Murakami , Kafka on the Shore
22 " We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun. "
― Brandon Sanderson , Calamity (Reckoners, #3)
23 " How much could the person you love change, and still remain the same person to whom you'd made your promise? We don't expect our lovers to remain the same over the course of a long relationship. In fact, if you're married at sixty-five to the same person you married when you were twenty, your marriage has probably failed. But there are changes, over time, that spell doom for a marriage, although exactly what these are, and to what degree, varies from couple to couple. For some people, vast changes over time make no difference to the fundamental sense of devotion one soul has for another. But for others, relatively small changes can push things to the breaking point: gaining or losing weight, gaining or losing faith, gaining or losing wealth. How does any relationship survive in the end, when change is the only constant? "
― Jennifer Finney Boylan , Long Black Veil
24 " Take a close look at nature and you’ll see that every living creature is wired for mutation and variation. The fact that people can say, “I’m not the same person I used to be,” is the greatest of all miracles. "
― Toni Sorenson ,
25 " Relational congruence is the ability to be fundamentally the same person with the same values in every relationship, in every circumstance and especially amidst crisis. It is the internal capacity to keep promises to God, to self and to one's relationships that consistently express one's identity and values in spiritually and emotionally healthy ways. Relational congruence is about both constancy and care at the same time. It is about both character and affection, and self-knowledge and authentic self-expression. Relational congruence is the leader's ability to cultivate strong, healthy, caring relationships; maintaining healthy boundaries; and communicating clear expectations, all while staying focused on the mission. "
26 " Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his. "
― J. Courtney Sullivan , Saints for All Occasions
27 " The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside. "
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett , Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
28 " Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary. "
― Crystal Woods , Write like no one is reading
29 " No matter how I want things to stay the same, no matter how discomforting change can be, I am stuck with the certainty that all molecules vibrate; all things are in constant motion; and change will happen. I can either accept that truth or suffer depression when I do not accept the reality that surrounds me. Change is constant; I am not the same person today as the person who put his head down on the pillow last night. Iron Mask "
― David W. Earle LPC
30 " People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant and don’t matter. They are not going to understand you, or even see the point of why God had you hang in there with them for so long. Remember this: Sometimes meeting someone has nothing to do with what you can provide for him or her and everything to do with what God needs you to recognize in that person. If you didn’t understand the message, God will keep sending the same person or situation into your life. "
― Shannon L. Alder
31 " I find it funny that you could pass the same person on the street, in a store, or even in your neighborhood many times before actually meeting, thinking you’ve never seen them before, but when you are finally introduced, they seem to pop up everywhere. "
― Courtney Giardina
32 " Never cry for the same person twice. "
33 " What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that. "
― James A. Moore , The Silent Army (Seven Forges, #4)
34 " The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn't go to school for that, but if you're going to be there anyway, then that's the most important thing to get accomplished. That is the true education: accept no substitutes. The idea that we should take the first four years of young adulthood and devote them to career preparation alone, neglecting every other part of life, is nothing short of an obscenity. If that's what people had you do, then you were robbed. And if you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you were at the beginning - the same beliefs, the same values, the same desires, the same goals for the same reasons - then you did it wrong. Go back and do it again. "
― William Deresiewicz , Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
35 " I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship "
― Amit Abraham
36 " My blood boils when I see people going back to the same person who hurt them like a million times. "
37 " It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds. "
― Marie Lu , Legend (Legend, #1)
38 " As I listened I felt a dull numbness, like the effect of chloroform, rather than the primal, anarchic agony you usually feel when you encounter someone you have loved now turned to dust, in some object like a little bowl, and you are required to believe that it is still the same person who once smiled at you. "
― Magda Szabó , The Door
39 " I forget, because it’s hard to realize that the same person who gives you so much love, and to whom you give so much in return, can go through the kinds of pain and suffering that nothing you do can alleviate. "
― , This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
40 " Be careful what you choose to experience, because you never remain the same person as earlier. Something intrinsically changes you forever! "