#ang

Lead me home to your waters where comfort waits for me Take my soul, forgiving Father And cradle the hearts of those who grieve Wipe away the anger and hatred from the world we once knew May your peace of heart Be a blanket May our lives begin anew. Hearts that have been broken Lives that have been torn What can never be forgotten Is now a legacy we face this morn The madness of a moment Can never be erased And the devastation that remains Is shadowed with disgrace Please hold your children as we pray for tomorrow We are all as one As we struggle in a world encased in sorrow ↗

— Carol Clemente O'Malley

#anger

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fragility #jocelyn-fray #beauty

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#about #adjusts #change #complains #expects

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#change

When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. ↗

— John Green

#teenagers #teens #change

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#change

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#change

My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#nicholas #nicholas-sparks #sparks #the-notebook #change

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#journey #reading #travel #change

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#deep-thoughts #thinking #world #change