Quotes About Change

We are always the person we were, and we grow into someone very different, if we live long enough. Both things are true.

What we think we'll do is often not what we end up doing. It isn't always in our own control, our life.

And in that moment Dianora had a truth brought home to her with finality: how something can seem quite unchanged in all the small surface details of existence where things never really change, men and women being what they are, but how the core, the pulse, the kernel of everything can still have become utterly unlike what it had been before.

His intelligence stretched her to the limits, and then changed what those limits were.

Winter was coming.

You touched people's lives, glancingly, and those lives changed forever.

I think that when we're young we often have the sense that what we do when faced with a choice will define our lives forever. This can be untrue, sometimes amusingly so, but not always.

Small things change a life. Change lives.

We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.

That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.

An encounter on a springtime road. The random spinning of fortune's wheel. It can sway us, change us, shape or end our days.

Whichever way the wind blows, it will rain upon the Kindath.

Maybe home for some is always the one they lost.

He had a vivid sense of roads forking, rivers branching, one of those moments where the life that follows cannot be as it might otherwise have been.

Rivers do usually begin in almost imperceptible ways. The great events and changes of the world under heaven also frequently start that way, their origins recognized only by those troubling themselves to look back.

The land is never truly dead. It can always come back. Or what is the meaning of the cycle of seasons and years?" She wiped her tears away and looked at him. His expression in the darkness was much too sad for a moment such as this. She wished she knew a way to dispel that sorrow, and not only for tonight. He said, "That is mostly true, I suppose. Or true for the largest things. Smaller things can die. People, dreams, a home.

It was good to feel laughter, to release it. To believe it was permitted. That many things might now, finally, be allowed. We are vulnerable when we feel that way. But not, in truth, any more than when we live curtailed, held back, enraged, afraid. Everything is, indeed, always changing. And not usually to be controlled by us, the children of earth and sky, with fortune's wheel always turning and a future we cannot know. •

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

They'd been painful against her spine…she's more accustomed to them now. A person, a woman, can adapt to more than she might of thought she could; what she's unsure about is when that stops being a virtue and turns to something else.. leaving you too much changed, undefined, unanchored… like a fisherman's empty boat drifting on a river, with no way to be returned to where it belongs.

increasingly little

Men changed during wars or conflict, sometimes beyond recognition. Tai

Everything had already changed though, and both men knew it. The city they had built together—a smaller, quieter repository of some of the same graces Silvenes had embodied under the khalifs—was already finished, its brief flowering done. However this invasion ended, King Badir's city of music and ivory was lost.

Change and chance are the way of the world.

heresies are not like clothing styles or beards, my lord, to go in and out of fashion by the season or the year." Alixana