Quotes About Change

Thus he illustrated a perennial problem of new theological thinking: it is all too soon forgotten as a new generation arises, one that 'knows not Joseph'.

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. And they lived happily ever after

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.

To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

Thomas, she suggested, you and I? We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating what you're leaving.

Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered.

We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences. {...} We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

It's hard to leave the only place you've known.

Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid.

That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.

It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.

each change, painful though some of them will be, will make us a little better than we were before.

Don't grow much more, or you will be taller than I am, little Longlegs! Annemarie smiled, but Peter's comment was no longer the lighthearted fun of the past. It was only a brief grasp at something that had gone.

But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.