#ang

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#language #words #beauty

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#gazebo #life #change

The power to change is in my hands. ↗

— Helen M. Ryan

#change #new-life #take-charge #change

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap. ↗

— Florence King

#menstruation #women #change

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#strangeness #beauty

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#beauty

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#language #understanding #wonder #world #beauty

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#death #snow #werewolf #winter #beauty

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#always #apprehend #beautiful #beautifully #feel

Although healing brings a better life, it also threatens to permanently alter life as you’ve known it. Your relationships, your position in the world, even your sense of identity may change. Coping patterns that have served you for a lifetime will be called into question. When you make the commitment to heal, you risk losing much of what is familiar. As a result one part of you may want to heal while another resists change.” Courage to Heal Workbook by Laura Davis ↗

— Laura Davis

#child-sexual-abuse #commitment #copy #healing #identity