#chan

When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can't. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those eyes that water constantly. That one tear, that tiny, salty, droplet of moisture is a means of escape. Although it's just a small tear, it is the heaviest thing in the world. And it doesn't do a damn thing to fix anything. ↗

— Chase Brooks

#fiction #pain #romance #change

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#change #open-mindedness #self-improvement #change

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. ↗

— William Faulkner

#dissent #protest #truth #truth-telling #change

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#change

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#style #change

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#punctuation #change

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#change

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#getting-over-it #mourning #change

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fair #fighting #change