Quotes About Change

Old habits are strong and jealous. They will not be displaced easily if they get any warning that such plans are afoot; they will fight for their existence with subtlety and persuasiveness.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

The story the body lives in is crazy there is no end to it but change.

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!

Not a thing had happened the way she had planned, no, not a single thing! But it seemed to her she had never been so happy in her life.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

For to Ade,...the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

He did not begin by tearing down, or by painting so intense a picture of misery and injustice that you burned to change the world. Instead, he aroused in you a sense of your own capacities for work, for accomplishment. He made you feel that you and all men had great and generous hearts with which to love God. If you once recognized this fact in yourself you would expect and find it in others.

Today,' said Lymond, 'if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

He thought wryly of the current political metaphor, "the two ends are hot and the middle is cold," a very Chinese way of saying that change was passionately wanted at both the top and the bottom of the society, but sitting squarely in the middle in many areas were Mao's bureaucrats, threatened by the progressive changes, indignant, clinging in fury to the old status quo.

The people still waited with infinite patience for the democracy that had been promised them

That night I experienced one of those sudden, unpleasant shifts of perception that occur to parents, when you notice a difference in your child that's been coming over a long time, and you're faced with it, and at the same time you're groping back to touch the child they were a minute ago, while a somehow unaccountable, unpredictable person is watching you, waiting for you to catch up with them, contemptuous because you haven't.

At the same time, he was aware that literature was more than sociological data: it changes, not just reflects, expectations and experiences.

Let bygones be bygones, but we cannot and should not forget.

But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.

I was consumed by a selfishness and arrogance that I didn't dare let go of until I found a new persona to hide behind.

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

I want to tell her that this isn't 'love'. that 'love' doesn't stay the same, it changes like we do, it is shaped by our experiences, by what we do, who we meet, what we learn. I'd like to explain that falling in love now is not how it'll be forever, and even if you stay with the same boy for the rest of your life, this incarnation of love won't stay the same, it never does.

strung across my mind like intricate worry beads are these thoughts about whether this was the path I was meant to have taken. Was there another option for me? And am I too far along this path to make a change, and relive my life?

things are very rarely better, just different.

If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.