Quotes About Change

it wasn't until recently that we saw marriage as a winning issue rather than a losing one.

the fact remains that it is the fight itself, standing up against the hate because we dare to demand equality, that changes the culture and brings people to the cause.

Getting those rights is essential. But, as Kenji Yoshino notes in his discussing of covering, winning rights is only one part of the battle. To keep them, we have to change the culture, and that means resisting the demand that we cover and conform.

The logic of incrementalism is that by asking for a little bit at a time and winning a little bit at a time, you can eventually achieve the full complement of your goals.

The old-boobs Pamela or the new-boobs Pamela?

Little Life Lesson 1: Life is a lot like hair, some mornings you get up and it looks great. Other mornings you can tell it's out to get you.

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same.

There's no such thing as lost; there's just adjusting your perspective" -Scott

I like playing defense, but sometimes I think it might be fun to score the goals. It would be nice to be the good guy for a change.

while you try to reconcile the place before you with the place in your memory,

Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.

How do we live in this world where friends disappear for years and years and reappear as if nothing has happened?

So what kind of minister do your folks want?" I asked. "Who cares? They're olds, too. They want someone who will like them more than Tom Fox does. But I think we need someone younger and not some old-school lady minister going on and on with the Mary Oliver and the Annie Dillard." I liked both writers and said so.

Why is it, she said, when you actually do the right thing for once, it doesn't feel good? In fact, it feels so awful you think you are going to die? .... You feel like you are going to die, Patsy, because some part of you is dying.some entrenched tyrant of the soul, and sweetheart, she is not going easy.

At one point, Jack was enlisted to move Red from his aunt Maude's house in Redlands to his grandma Iris's house in Pomona.

I think there are many church members and churches in general that spend too much time policing the behavior of others than to pray for them that God helps them to make the changes they need to in their lives.

This is going to be a little uncomfortable

Love makes the time pass, but time makes love pass, too.

Do something every day to change your attitude—instead of trying to think your way into right acting, act your way into right thinking. Act the person you want to be, and gradually that's the person you will become.

there comes a time when you measure how much you have to lose!

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Things change, and not always for the better.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.