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The tender plant of spirituality will die if exposed too early to the action of a constant change of ideas and ideals. Many people, in the name of what may be called religious liberalism, may be seen feeding their idle curiosity with a continuous succession of different ideals. With them, hearing new things grows into a kind of disease, a sort of religious drink-mania. They want to hear new things just by way of getting a temporary nervous excitement, and when one such exciting influence has had its effect on them, they are ready for another. Religion is with these people a sort of intellectual opium-eating, and there it ends. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent — the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#freedom #change

Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life. ↗

— Sarah Breathnach

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Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

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Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

#christianity #change

With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow. ↗

— Paul Celan

#silenced #snow #word #change

Things yet unknown will change the way you think. ↗

— Toba Beta

#way-of-thinking #yet-unknown #change

When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world ↗

— Gossy Ukanwoke

#creativity #inspirational #change

I have been praying, too, for the first time in my life. That parson, Tugwell, he helped me see - not the error of my ways, for I knew them all to well already - but what was wanting in me. I am far from perfect, I know, but I am changed and changing still ↗

— Julie Klassen

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It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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