#age

At that point where you have decided to upgrade from aspiration to expectation and have begun to visualize an outcome, something incredibly important has happened, you have committed to the process of change. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#change

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love. ↗

— Mike Mason

#marriage #relationships #change

A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever... ↗

— Kim Hornsby

#novels #page-turner-beach-read #romance #women-s-fiction #change

Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, names do not remain the same - even if they don't change. ↗

— Victor Pelevin

#change

La vie est un voyage solitaire et, être mariée n'y change rien. D'ailleurs je pense que le fait de ressentir cette solitude avec la même intensité alors qu'en théorie on est deux est une souffrance encore plus cruelle. Il y a un facteur chance à l'origine de chaque rencontre, après on gère comme on peut ce que la vie nous donne. Or, c'est bien connu, la vie est injuste et, en plus elle a un goût douteux. ↗

— Agathe Colombier Hochberg

#couple #mariage #vie #change

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#puritans #life

Free agency changed the baseball landscape in many ways. It created more opportunities for players, but it also meant increasingly fewer players would spend an entire career playing for one franchise—and that’s especially true for players capable of becoming “legends,” the ones in such demand on the free agent market. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball-stats #baseball-trivia #free-agency #major-league-baseball #change

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#childhood #family #parents #age

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all. ↗

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

#the-false-prince #education

Nothing in language is immutably fixed: the best writers are constantly changing it. ↗

— C. E. Montague

#rewrites #change