Quotes About Change

Beauty flees,"[...]Will you no longer be you? Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.

Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came.

Battles can alter history. He did not sound pleased with it. The trouble is, sometimes you cannot say how history will be changed until it is too late.

Patience is a virtue that must be learned, but we must all be ready for the change of an instant.

All things change. Until we wake, the dream drifts on the wind.

But sometimes the change chooses you, or the Wheel chooses it for you. And sometimes the Wheel bends a life-thread, or several threads, in such a way that all the surrounding threads are forced to swirl around it, and those force other threads, and those still others, and on and on.

People frequently continued to go on as they had been after all purpose in it had been lost.

People never really changed, yet the world did, with disturbing regularity. You just had to live with it, or at least live through it. Now and then, with luck, you could affect the direction of the changes, but even if you stopped one, you only set another in motion.

The surface of the water may be still, but the fish never stop swimming.

I could wish somebody wanted to talk about something besides the weather. Everyone complains about it.

Who we were is lost to all men, and life is bitter.

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai," Androl said. "The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

Even the mountains will be worn down with time

At dawn the day was born, just as twilight gave birth to night, but at dawn, night died, and at twilight, day.

The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.

Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came. Nothing

A general who draws his sword has put aside his baton and become a common soldier.

Even mountains are worn away by the wind, and no one can climb the same hill twice.

Traditions should not be maintained just because they were traditions. Strength was not strength if it had no purpose or direction.

This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

and if you ever go back, your village'll no be big enough to hold you.

Light, how the horror of yesterday became merely the uneasiness of today, once you grew accustomed.

Not a tree of it left. I've been to Tear and Illian, too. Different names, and no memories. There's only pasture for their horses where the grove was at Tear, and at Illian the grove is the King's park, where he hunts his deer, and none allowed inside without his permission. It has all changed, Rand. I fear very much that I will find the same everywhere I go. All the groves gone, all the memories gone, all the dreams dead.

For he shall come like the breaking dawn, and shatter the world again with his coming, and make it anew.