#ch

It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#literature #philosophy-of-life #change

As you soak in His Presence, and soak up His love for you, you will begin to know that you are truly and totally loved, maybe for the first time in your life. This will change your life in so many ways. You will feel and experience His love and His rest and His peace daily and this cannot help but affect your life. ↗

— Linda Boone

#intimacy-with-god #real-love #soaking #change

What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy. ↗

— David Budbill

#poetry #truth #vermont #change

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The Omnipotence to Change His future mind? ↗

— Karen Owens

#humor #omnipotence #omniscience #paradox #religion

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves. ↗

— Myles Horton

#change #dependence #change

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#visualization #change

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#change #good #goodness #words #writing

People grow, but they don't change. ↗

— Elizabeth Bard

#change

You can't change what has happened, only what will happen. ↗

— Mitchell Leichner

#change

Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing something she'd rather not; even if it left her flat on her back. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#meaningful #change