#ang

Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes. Conceal your truths within words. Natural ambiguity will protect you then. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#change

Her expression almost never changed. Made it hard to tell what she was thinking. But also made her seem separate from the rest of the world. It was like she lived so deep in the ocean even light couldn’t reach her. Like a fish that couldn’t see the dark lonely depths, because it was always dreaming about sunlight. ↗

— Yukari Yashiki

#human #numb #change

Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#political #change

So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us can be kept; but as soon as the situation changes, habit ceases and the natural returns. Education is certainly only habit. Now are there not people who forget and lose their education? Others who keep it? Where does this difference come from? If the name nature were limited to habits conformable to nature, we would spare ourselves this garble! ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#change

When you are unable to forgive someone, you deny yourself a life free of anger and hate. ↗

— Winsome Campbell-Green

#inspirational #motivational #anger

The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#change

We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#making-a-difference #change

Altogether forty-five Emperors had claimed the Spear of Destiny as their possession between the coronation in Rome of Charlemagne and the fall of the old German Empire exactly a thousand years later. And what a pagentry it was! THe Spear had passed like the very finger of destiny through the millenium forever creating new patterns of fate which had again and again changed the entire history of Europe. ... According to the legend associated with the Spear of Longinus, the claimant to this talisman of power has a choice between the service of two opposing Spirits in the fulfilment of his world historic aims -- a Good and an Evil Spirit. ↗

— Trevor Ravenscroft

#history #jesus-christ #the-occult #change

The past is the past. I believe that people can change, under the right conditions (like plastic surgery). ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #past #plastic-surgery #change

...There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again ↗

— Anne Frank

#change