Quotes About Change

I caught myself being drawn ceaselessly back into a past that I wished mightily to emerge from -- I had come to know only recently that one *could* emerge without forgetting, and that to remember need not be to suffocate.

You are where you are because that's where you need to be... and if you need to move on, you will move on.

We can also learn to develop a new capacity for seeing the nervous water of an emotional process (a coach or a guide like Kenny is helpful). It requires some new categories for thinking; it means practicing some new disciplines and skills. It entails change in how we relate to others, and it demands time and patience. But leadership in the kingdom of God is worth the effort.

I pointed out how the eel grass lay flat on the beach, and asked them to imagine what it must be like to live in a forest that worked like a folding stage prop, going from three-dimensional to two-dimensional twice a day.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.

the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

It's—it's always lightest j-just before the dark.

since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book

Which teacher has the bigger influence? Where is more time available for change? Those two numbers—900 and 7,800—will appear over and over in this book.

The story about race that was embedded into America at the founding of our nation was a lie; it is time to change that story and discover a new one.

Fundamentalism is essentially a revolt against modernity. It is a reaction usually based on profound fear and defensiveness against "losing the faith.

White privilege is a sin of which we must repent, and the best way to show that is by changing practices and policies—and by helping to create new communities that provide for another way.

Martin Luther King Jr., the nation's apostle of nonviolence, once said, "A riot is the language of the unheard."32 But King also showed us that, ultimately, only disciplined, sacrificial, and nonviolent social movements can change things.

he doesn't agree with the conventional wisdom that says, "The world changed on September 11." Hauerwas says, "No, the world changed in 33 A.D. The question is how to narrate what happened on September 11 in light of what happened in 33 A.D.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

It wasn't…too long ago. But it feels like…years ago…since I felt…the warm hello of the sun. Lately things seem a little colder, the wind…it seems to get a little bolder. The eagle was flying…now it's on the run. But then again, it's all in my mind. Ever since I lost that glow I've been feeling so down all the time. Where's that girl of mine…

Now if 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around...

We cannot change the history of the past.

Getting a second doctor's opinion is kinda like switching slot machines.

Our love is fleeting and fickle. It is based more on emotion than determination. It is almost always conditional and undependable, and can change as often as the tides.

The future, vague and sad, did not frighten me half as much as knowing that it was not carved in stone.