Quotes About Change

Life begins before a soul is born and commences once again with the act of dying, and as in the Afro-Asian symbol of the snake of eternity swallowing its tail, all is in flux, all comes full circle, with no beginning and no end.

Course truth don't count for much after all these years cause folks hangs on to what it suits 'em to believe and won't let go of it.

Just goes to show how life leaks away when you ain't paying attention. One day you look up, look around, and the world is empty. Not empty exactly but something is wrong, there ain't no color left to life." outraged, he glared at Lucius. "Watsons long gone and Coxes moved away, Burdetts and Betheas, too. Ain't none of them good old families left. Died out or gone off to the cities, gone away like they was never here at all.

This stone on which the lizard lies was under the sea when lizards first came into being, and now the flood is wearing it away, to return it once again into the oceans.

It is difficult to adjust because I do not know who is adjusting; I am no longer that old person and not yet the new.

It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it's dangerous.

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

To fight gentrification is to fight American thinking.

As Steve has said to me on more than one occasion: "The Chinese are the most rational people in the world. Until they aren't.

This Republican takeback of Capitol Hill would immediately

Is this, Miriam wonders, what they call the march of history? And even if she doesn't fully understand, it doesn't mean she can't appreciate the need, the periodic need for some people to resort to gasoline, rags, and matches. Doesn't it always come to this? Isn't history as much about tearing things down as it is about building things up?

Something occurs, in the motion of the present, but it's already over. Because even then, even as she watched, she was already moving away from it, already thinking about how years from now she might tell someone about this.

She changed. But then you do, don't you? Otherwise what's the point of getting married? If it doesn't change you, I mean.

to follow her own path and leave him. Even the kids had complained when they were growing

lost a bit at a time, over the years; it didn't just happen overnight. But there were intense experiences, epiphanies of a kind, that brought about quantum leaps.

realized with a shock that the loss of innocence never stopped happening, that he was still losing it, that it was like a wound that never healed, and he would probably go on losing it, drop by drop, until the day he died.

Love lost or rejected may first turn to hate, but only over time does it become indifference.

He didn't know why, but the sight of the water stretching out as far as the eye could see, until it met the sky way in the distance, evoked a feeling of awe in him: the way it was always changing, the surface swelling and dipping, the scudding whitecaps and huge breakers. It put you in your place, put things in perspective. He could watch it forever.

Peter Robinson

when you visit a place you used to live in for a long time, you see it differently; you become more like a tourist in your own land.

The problem with so much religious communication is that it aims at changing our minds. The result is that we can hear the message of the preacher without necessarily heeding the message; we can listen to the "truth" and agree with it, yet not change in response to it.

A true Christian militant attacks systems of oppression and fights for a better world even though that new world might negatively affect their own position of power.