Quotes About Change

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.

You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

I sure would like to get kissed. How would that feel on my mouth, How different would I be after, a changed climate down in my insides?

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.

You want my honest opinion?" she says. I've already heard too many, but she goes ahead: "LaVaughn, I like you for being uppity. That's partly why we're here. Right?" "Huh?" I ask her. "Here in this room we're obligated to be uppity. That's our purpose here. We're supposed to change. Those friends of yours can't appreciate you. They don't know how.

every generation of people thinks they are growing up into a harder time. She thinks maybe it makes them feel better about the struggle they have leaving their childhood behind.

Anyone who goes against the conventions of their time will experience heartache. People fear change, Carrie, and they fight the things they are afraid of.

We only truly fight to make changes when we believe in those changes with all our heart. You have to want your dream badly enough to hold on through the rough times.

she had realized she could waste energy with anger and frustration, or simply accept what was and do the best she could to make a difference. If

When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart they are trying to change.

You remember one thing, Peter. Ain't many of us able to go out and change the whole world, but ever'one of us can help change the people God brings our way.

too often the majority makes far less noise than a determined minority.

Everything you have told me is nothing but fear that the life they have built for themselves and always known will disappear if other people are given the same opportunities as themselves.

When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

When you're bereaved you're so all over the place that you might find a book heart-warming on a Tuesday and mindless nonsense on a Wednesday.

Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.

When Beatlemania happened, it was as if the massed multitudes of projected wives-and-mothers of the world had screamed out, with one voice, 'We have been held captive too long, and WE WANT TO BE FREE!

In the sixties, a power struggle started which still hasn't been won.

Everyone now knows that marriage is not the only route to fulfillment, but the media and the internet tell of more lonely hearts and solitary singles than ever before.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.