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I was never one to care about how I looked on the outside. That wasn't the real me anyway. Not that I didn't appreciate the way I looked now, I just didn't feel it mattered, because how you look doesn't change what’s in your soul. ↗

— Christine Zolendz

#so-true #change

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#change

Change? Start by keeping a small promise. ↗

— Jill Telford

#promises #change

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential. ↗

— Laura Esquivel

#family #food #love #passion #r

Right, what's there possibly to worry about?" she said. "Just some surgery in the garage with a drunk doctor." Little miss," said Doc, pointing a finger at Cass. "I'm drinking. I'm not drunk. There's a difference." He took another sip from his cup. "But in another ten minutes or so, that might change, so you should stop stalling. ↗

— Gregg Rosenblum

#change

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#reaction #change

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that couldn't be seen from shore. Then I climbed the tallest mountain peak to watch the amber sun through the clouds. Finally, I traveled to the darkest part of the valley to see the last glimmering rays of light through the misty fog. It was every perspective I experienced on my journey that left the leaves trodden black. And that has made all the difference. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#change #changing #choices #inspirational #life

The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life. ↗

— Stig Åvall Severinsen

#breatheology #changes #thought #change

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#change #compassion #conscience #conviction #guilt

They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and intensely and, once in a while at times when the heart was too full, ventilated it in hate or forgiveness. No visible change took place in them; they lived in the accustomed context, were respected as always, and yet they were changed, almost unaccountably to themselves and incomprehensibly to others. Their lives were not cracked or broken, as others' were, but were bent into themselves; lost to others, they futilely sought to find themselves. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#life-lessons #love #passion #seduction #temptation