#ang

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have---and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. ↗

— James Belasco and Ralph Stayer Flight of the Buffalo

#inspirational #change

I'll be fine ' Pen told me a little curtly. 'Where are you going anyway ' 'The United States. Alabama.' 'Looking for a change of scene ' 'Looking for a dead woman.' 'Get Jenna-Jane Mulbridge to come down here and I'll make you one. ↗

— Mike Carey

#change

Everything must change, nothing and no one goes unchanged. ↗

— Lyrics to the song "Everything Must Change"

#change

The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. ↗

— Bill Guggenheim

#change

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#life-and-death #thantos #death

No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters. ↗

— Christopher Healy

#wisdom #change

I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as if I shouldn't be there. My mind began to wander, as I knew it would, back to the boonies. I was on patrol again. Monaco was on point. Peewee and Walowick followed him. Lobel and Brunner were next, then Johnson, the sixty cradled in his arm as if it were a child. We were walking the boonies, past rice paddies, toward yet another hill. I was in the rear, and for some reason I turned back. Behind me, trailing the platoon, were the others. Brew, Jenkins, Sergeant Dongan, Turner, and Lewis, the new guys, and Lieutenant Carroll. I knew I was mixing my prayers, but it didn't matter. I just wanted God to care for them, to keep them whole. I knew they were thinking about me and Peewee. ↗

— Walter Dean Myers

#fallen-angels #my-feels #soldiers #vietnam #war

There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you. ↗

— Ashley Rice

#strength #wisdom #women #change

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#courage #dangerous #desperate #difficult #form

A guy I grew up with recently died. I did attend his funeral, but only because I thought there’d be free food afterwards.
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— Jarod Kintz

#food #funeral #change