#chan

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change. ↗

— Nancy Sleeth

#change #sanity #simplicity #stability #tradition

Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change. ↗

— Douglas B. Reeves

#change #change

Hear the heartbeats of a nation silenced together on the impatient winds of change, And deafen your ears to the words of one. Melodized by emancipation.. Then open your eyes, open your eyes for me: Darling, freedom to you is a freedom to none. ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#freedom #nation #change

Continuous exercise can wear you down and wear you out. What once was a passion has now become just a chore that you dread. ↗

— Helen M. Ryan

#exercise #habits #not-wanting-to-exercise #change

Each word was shaped with certainty, and I felt, more strongly than ever before in my life, that I had at last found my true path. I knew the story would change as I told it. No one can tell as tory without transforming it in some way; it is part of the magic of storytelling. Like the troubadors of the past, who hid their messages in poems, songs and fairy tales, I too would hide my true purpose [ … ] It was by telling stories that I would save myself. ↗

— Kate Forsyth

#writing #change

She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He had once, for example, put down a spokesman for the pesticide industry with a remark that people still quoted at parties: "And I presume on the eighth day God called you and said, 'I changed my mind about insects! ↗

— John Brunner

#pesticides #pollution #change

If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order. ↗

— Kenneth Schwarz

#breaking-a-habit #breaking-bad-habits #change-a-bad-habit #change-bad-habits #habit

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it. ↗

— Ian Tattersall

#science #change

We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#change

if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#militarism #world-war-i #change