#ang

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#change

Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#change

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#philosophical #philosophy #poetry #wisdom #wisdom-quote

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#change

It's funny how your relationship with your own looks changes when you go weeks without seeing yourself. None of us really knows what we look like after all. In that nanosecond it takes for a mirror to give our faces back to us our mind has already done all sorts of perverse rearranging. ↗

— Nina de Gramont

#change

Synthesis is the gateway to Transcendence, because once you accept that you are forever changed and that life is forever different, you have to ask, "What are you going to do about that fact? Will the change be for the better or for worse?" It's the loss itself that becomes the catalyst for meaning. (pg 273) ↗

— Ashley Davis Bush

#inspirational #change

When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence. Because if openness, women's empowerment, and freedom of thought and inquiry are the real sources of the West's economic strength, then the Arab-Muslim world would have to change. And the fundamentalists and extremists do not want to change. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#openness #radicals #terrorists #change

You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it. It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges. From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side. ↗

— Jeffrey Lang

#humanity #inspirational #jeffrey #kindness #lang

Time flies when you grow fangs and fur. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#fangs #fur #humor #humour #shifters

I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#reality #willpower #change