Quotes About Change

we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction

It's a funny old world.

A week is a long time in politics

Socialism is like one of those horrible viruses. You no sooner discover a remedy for one version, than it spontaneously evolves into another.

Nothing at all, but I'm not sure I'm ready for it. I'd hate to get used to something I'm not ready for.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.

There are those who like things just they are and will stop at nothing to keep them that way, and those who understand that change is the natural order of the universe, and one must change with it.

You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever".

You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.

Was tomorrow going to see the end of her long-guarded virginity?

Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

The old life is gone, my days are new, but time is still a mystery of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance. " —Rosa

Like King Midas, I am left with nothing but this unreasonable hope that, somehow, my strange life and my lost family will return to normal.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

When I was a child, I first noticed that neither history as I was taught it nor the stories I was told seemed to lead to me. I began to fix them.

If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks.

Good will starts out fat and sweet as tub butter and turns slowly rancid. It must be made again daily if we want it fresh.

Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water.

Those of your time who fought hard for change, often they had myths that a revolution was inevitable. But nothing is! All things interlock. We are only one possible future

Daniel felt a controlled importance, a fine passionate honing of his attention and intellect that made him impatient with his whole previous life.

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.