#ang

She squeezed her eyes shut. “No.” “Excuse me?” She sniffed, opened her eyes then looked up. “No. I don’t wish you to leave.” His eyes changed from lukewarm to hot. The iron of the seat met her back. Oh yes, definitely she was the keeper at the zoo and she’d just offered her own leg, medium-rare, to the lion. ↗

— Cari Silverwood

#erotic-romance #historical-romance #change

You won't be able to find the truth by merely seeking it. You also have to change your perspective and yourself. ↗

— Toba Beta

#truth #change

why do we hold on to those who hurt us? thinking that one day they will change, when in reality its up to us how much we want to take, we must not convinse our selves that we could change a person therefore, we move on to the next chapter, and maybe down the road you will find that special some one thats just right for you, with no need to change any thing. ↗

— Veronica Esparza

#change

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad—I've never changed my mind about that. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

#change

Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead...." "Or that is not present because it does not yet exist, something desire, feared, possible or impossible," Ludmilla says. "Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.... ↗

— Italo Calvino

#change

You musttake personal responsiblity. You cannot change the circumstances, the season or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. ↗

— JimRohn

#change

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#change #change-life #change

Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may God bless and give him Peace!) and his noble Companions and their Followers (blessing and peace be upon them all!) and the faith and practice of genuine Muslims after them; and they also refer to the self and mean its return to its original nature and religion (Islam). ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

#development #islam #progress #change

the path of change is unpredictable. ↗

— Barbara Marciniak

#change

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life #possibility #change