#ang

No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#change

He said to himself, that he hated Margaret, but a wild, sharp sensation of love cleft his dull, thunderous feeling like lightning, even as he shaped the words expressive of hatred. His greatest comfort was in hugging his torment; and in feeling, as he had indeed said to her, that though she might despise him, contemn him, treat him with her proud sovereign indifference, he did not change one whit. She could not make him change. He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#change

There is a little word that we can say to others now. "Thank You Very Much". ↗

— Marya Sy

#life-changing #thanks #words-of-wisdom #change

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#chaos #civilization #desires #necessity #order

I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#amazing #change #creating #enhancement #greatness

Do not go changing in your nature just to satisfy any creature. ↗

— Rawan M. ElBanna

#change

Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it? ↗

— Michelle Madow

#time-travel-romance #time-traveling #change

He tossed back the last of the blood. "I'm going to be young forever. I can do anything I want. Drink as much as I want. Sleep with anyone. Live a life of debauchery. And I'll never change. I'm like Dorian Gray." His eyebrows knit together, and he thought for a moment. "Without all the homosexual undertones. ↗

— Thomas Galvin

#vamps #change

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#pain #transformation #tribulations #change

I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change. ↗

— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#stepfamily #stepmother #change