#ay

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#act #change #delay #future #gamble

Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. ↗

— James T. McCay

#promise #today #tomorrow #change

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed. ↗

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

#going-away #magic #travel #change

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#actually #always #appearance #been #beings

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fair-play #love #love

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#advance #cannot #danger #every #fearing

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #life

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#change

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. ↗

— James Baldwin

#changing #earth #fix #forever #generations

Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it. ↗

— James Baldwin

#gay #change