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Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ↗

— Frank Abagnale

#looking #other #pinstripes #stop #team

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change. ↗

— Nancy Sleeth

#change #sanity #simplicity #stability #tradition

The most important result of the encounter [in the preceding anecdote] is the scholar's startling discovery of the roundness of the earth . . . Instinctively realizing the connection between the foreigner's presence, the roundness of the earth, and future changes and upheavals, he finally announces, "Yes, the earth is round, the women will start to think, and as soon as they begin to think, they will become shameless. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#change

He smiled at me, and just like that I was completely happy to be who I was. I knew it wouldn't be easy all the time, but right now it was as simple as sunshine because Nathan was here and had helped me to realize that I was still Ramsey, no matter how much things had changed. ↗

— Markelle Grabo

#elves #fantasy #nathan #ramsey #change

We’re so used to just glancing at the environment through the eyes of the past that we’re frequently not certain if we are in fact paying attention or if we merely think that we’re paying attention. Dynamic meditation in everyday existence involves the act of truthfully seeing. Many of us have changed some aspect of our appearance only to have this go unnoticed by friends. Perhaps you’ve shaved off a mustache, added a tattoo, or altered your hairstyle, but your acquaintances failed to initially notice. In such a case, your friends were looking at their environment through the eyes of the past instead of actually seeing what was taking place in the present. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#ki #meditation #nakamura-tempu #past #present

A girl can dream can’t she? My new life plan is to stumble into every office of a CEO until I find a Christian Grey. ↗

— Sophie Monroe

#funny #humor #dreams

Someone once told her there’s a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it’s half as long as the time you’ve been together. But I couldn’t see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. ↗

— John Green

#inspiration #love #dreams

There is a nocturna for every single person in the world! And each night the nocturni sip dreams from the River of Knowledge, and fly out into the world, and deliver them to their humans. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#dreams #dreams

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#love #dreams

I've put out a lot of little roots these two years," Anne told the moon, "and when I'm pulled up they're going to hurt a great deal. But it's best to go, I think, and, as Marilla says, there's no good reason why I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions and dust them. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#change #change