Quotes About Change

Lucas Glover was the name of the man standing at the doorway in the heat. And though most called him Luke, he answered to either. Still, he suddenly wished that his name was a different one entirely and that he was standing anywhere else at that particular moment.

Intercession I once heard intercession defined as "rebellion against the status quo." To pray for your group members and to reserve meeting time for them to pray for one another acknowledges dependence on the Holy Spirit. It

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

yesterday's graffiti on a council wall became today's rant on Facebook.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.

God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

But she wasn't in love, though she had been ready to be. Love sank down gently from where it had been swollen in expectation -- she imagined a red balloon deflating to a foolish remnant. (In the cave, 171)

I had worried sometimes about making the transition into being grown-up – how did you know when to begin? Now I understood that you stepped out into it, as simply as into a day

I'd lived all along as if I was acting out some turbulent drama; then I woke up one day and found I'd stopped believing in the play

It's painful and terrible that youth is over, and with it that whole game of looking and longing and vying for attention, hoping for something, for some absolute transformation of everything. But it's also a reprieve to be let off that hook and know that you're simply in your own hands at last

And then every so often, as if a switch flicked between two versions of myself, I suddenly wasn't all right

When you are young and strong you can be sure of springing free of your material envelope through your own vitality; later, any dinginess or fustiness may seep back into you

New and improved

needed to take a step forward.

I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon — a streak of lean and a streak of fat.

We'll to the woods no more,The laurels all are cut.

Pleasure has turned into habit much more quickly than I should have ever thought possible.

And then again, I am no longer quite such a good-looking young fellow that tapestries leap off the wall in my honour.

Thus the ordinary, uncontrolled chattering we call "prose" changes its nature, like coal becoming incandescent. Poetry resembles music.

Time is your boat not your home.