“Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.”

— Patricia Briggs , book River Marked

Source: River Marked

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American writer 1965

Danielle Steel book Legacy

Source: Legacy

“If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Talents

Source: Parable of the Talents

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Source: Andy Warhol in His Own Words

“Things won't change unless you change you.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: How to Fall in Love

“Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“Unless you can die when the dream is past —
Oh, never call it loving!”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

A Woman's Shortcomings http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning/14908, st. 5 (1850).
Context: Unless you can muse in a crowd all day
On the absent face that fixed you;
Unless you can love, as the angels may,
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behoving and unbehoving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past —
Oh, never call it loving!