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Ideas... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project. (Attributed to Mike Jones) ↗

— Steven Levy

#inspiration #business

When you start positively changing your mind...you will start positively changing your life. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#change

I only sing in the shower. I would join a choir, but I don’t think my bathtub can hold that many people.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bathtub #choir #kinky #music #musical

In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#change #character #empowerment #love #men

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#change

Today is not yesterday. And tomorrow is nothing more than an idyllic day dream. ↗

— Rhonda Laurel

#dreams

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. ↗

— Rick Warren

#growth #inspirational #learning-from-mistakes #past #change

Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change. ↗

— Paul Rogat Loeb

#hope #imagination #social-change #change

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your life alone." "Don't change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay." Apparently I was supposed to sniff people to determine their competence. "How do you know?" He shrugged. "You just have to trust her. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#derek #kate #change