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Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#colors #gratefulness #gratitude #richelle #richelle-goodrich

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... ↗

— Julian Barnes

#change

Lighten up.” I yawned, pointing across the street to the diner. “If I got upset every time someone beat me, or chased me, or tried to rape me, I’d be crying in my cereal every morning. No one likes a whiner. ↗

— Mary Calmes

#optimism #rape #change

I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#fighting #humor #proposal #change

Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#feelings #love #change

It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before. ↗

— Wiley Cash

#inspirational #change

Love simply is where it is. My host loved Curt’s host, and that love did not die when the ownership of the minds changed. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#change

Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#change

Entomologist Dr. Ovid Byron speaking to television journalist, Tina, who says, re. global warming, "Scientists of course are in disagreement about whether this is happening and whether humans have a role." He replies: "The Arctic is genuinely collapsing. Scientists used to call these things the canary in the mine. What they say now is, The canary is dead. We are at the top of Niagara Falls, Tina, in a canoe. There is an image for your viewers. We got here by drifting, but we cannot turn around for a lazy paddle back when you finally stop pissing around. We have arrived at the point of an audible roar. Does it strike you as a good time to debate the existence of the falls?" p.367 ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#climate-crisis #monarch-butterflies #change

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#dogma #religion #self-righteous #stubborn #change