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It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites -- others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#emotion #feelings #glad #inspirational #change

There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#change

I was not meant to live anywhere except in Paradise. Such, simply, was my genetic inadaptation. Here on earth every prick of a rose-thorn changed into a wound. When the sun hid behind a cloud, I grieved. I pretended to work like others from morning to evening, but I was absent, dedicated to invisible countries. ↗

— Czesław Miłosz

#change

On occasion, it occurs to adults that they are allowed to do all the things that being a child prevented them from doing. But those desires change when you're not looking. There was a time when your favorite color transferred from purple to blue to whatever shade it is when you realize having a favorite color is a trite personality crutch, an unstable cultivation of quirk and a possible cry for help. You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you liked as a kid. You jump on your hotel bed, order dessert first, decide to put every piece of jewelry you own on your body and leave the house. Why? Because you can. Because you're the boss. Because . . . Ooooh. Shiny. ↗

— Sloane Crosley

#growing-up #change

Gregory: Well, Dane, you could share your impression with my alma mater instead. Dane: It's a challenge. Gregory: Glad to hear that hasn't changed. And which part do you find the most challenging? Dane: Living up to your reputation. ↗

— Anne Osterlund

#daniel-madousin #change

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name. ↗

— Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

#tradition #traditionalism #faith

I realized that I don't want to try to change you in order to be with you. That's not fair to you. And I deserve to share my life with someone who's on the same path as me, and right now, that's not you. But I need you to know that you have been such a strength and a comfort to me when I had nothing and," I started to cry, "I love you so much. You truly are my best friend. I don't want to have to imagine my world without you in it. But if following my truth creates that, then know that I will always love you no matter what you choose to do with your life. ↗

— The Hippie

#relationship-quotes #self-esteem #true-to-yourself #change

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#leadership #change

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested. ↗

— Jane Austen

#change

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#problem #change