#ang

How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear...It is a man's part to discern them, as much in th Golden Wood as in his own house. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#evil #good #judgement #lord-of-the-rings #two-towers

Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#change

What would you do if you were not afraid ? ↗

— Spencer Johnson

#fear-of-failure #change

Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted. ↗

— Libba Bray

#excitement #libba-bray #change

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind. ↗

— Bruce H. Lipton

#knowledge #limits #mind #perspective #change

Nothing is certain,” he murmured. “The future is constantly changing, and no one can predict what happens next. We have the power to change our destiny, because fate is not set in stone, and we are always free to make a choice. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#destiny #change

Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice! ↗

— Donquixote Doflamingo

#one-piece #pirate #change

Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life , And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets . And what is it to work with love ? it is to weave the colth with threads from your heart , even as if your beloved were to wear that colth . It is to build a house with affection , even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house . It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy , even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit . It is to change all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit . He who works in marble , and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone , is nobler than he who ploughs the soil. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#change

When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.” “We all felt it,” Nick said. “You may have felt it, but I caused it.” Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. “Something changed out there. I don’t know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn’t deserve what I did to him—and the powers that be know that I did it.” Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table. “What if,” said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, “what if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?” Clarence chuckled at the thought. “I believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.” “But you do think that something changed. . . .” “I don’t know whether it’s good or bad.” “What if it’s neither?” suggested Nick. “What if we get to make it one or the other? ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#change #good #guilt #hope #change

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. ↗

— William J Federer

#republic #rule #tyranny #tyrant #virtue