Quotes About Change

Sin has corrupted not only what we do, but also how we think, what goals we set, and how we feel about ourselves and others. Merely changing what we do will not change who we are. The cure for the selfishness and fear that control so much of what we do cannot be reduced to shallow solutions; we need to learn how our minds deceive us.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough

she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.

You ought to take more chances, I said. I took too many earlier, she said. I'm sorry.

The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you.

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

Jake, you're a dern grasshopper," Augustus said. "You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California.

I don't know anything about babies," he said. "No, and you've never lived any place but Arkansas," Clara said. "But you ain't stupid and you ain't nailed down. You can live other places and you can learn about children—people dumber than you learn about them.

The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.

Now there was a crack, a kind of canyon, between the Woodrow Call sitting with Teresa on the train and the Woodrow Call who had made the campfire that morning and saddled his horse. The crack was permanent, the canyon deep. He could not get across it, back to himself. His last moments as himself had been spent casually—making a campfire, drinking coffee, saddling a horse.

You told me to stay," July said. "I know I did, son," Augustus said. "I'm sure you wish you had. But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Go on with your digging and I'll tidy up.

For a time Dish lost all sense of what life was about. He even lost the sense that he was a cowboy, the strongest sense he had to work with. He was just a fellow with a glass in his hand, whose life had suddenly turned to mud. The day before he had been a top hand, but what did that mean anymore?

In the last year or two he had not only grown indifferent to company, he had begun to find it irritating.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

If you wait, all that happens is you get older.

Well, we've never had a divorce in our family, Aurora said, but if we have to have one, Tomas is a good place to start.

It struck her that endings were never as you would expect them to be.

It was often that way with women, it seemed. One minute Lorie would be drilling holes in him with her eyes, and the next minute she and Clarie would be combing one another's hair and singing tunes.

Somewhere along the Rio Concho, he had stopped feeling that he lived in a world where ledgers mattered.

You don't get the pint, Woodrow," Augustus said. "I've walked the earth in my pride all these years. If that's lost, then let the rest be lost with it. There's certain things my vanity won't abide.

The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

He himself had once been a man of firm opinion, but now it seemed to him that he knew almost nothing, whereas the words Clara flung at him were hard as rocks.