#chan

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten. ↗

— Alison Lurie

#change

Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown. ↗

— Cheryl Nielsen

#courage #divorce #change

Spring is like a perhaps hand Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#change

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#change

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#the-moon-and-more #change

Don't give up on the power of books to change lives and the world. As everything goes digital, book formats will morph, but their profound influence will endure. ↗

— David Marshall

#inspirational #change

Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered -- that is when we feel the greatest pain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life #pain #change

For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must first understand the nature of the force behind its existence. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#philosophy-of-religion #reid-ashbaucher #the-nature-of-god #change

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #childish #clothes #clothing #create

Two or three million years ago, the Earth was a ball of fire, revolving arround it's own axis. It took millions of years to cool under the constant downpour of rain. The Process was slow, imperceptible, but the gradual change - transition - came to pass. Same for generation after generation of evolution on Earth. Nature never jumps. She works in a leisurely manner, experimenting continuously. The same natural transition can be seen in man. This gradual change, transition, works every where, silently building storms and destroying soloar systems. ↗

— Lajos Egri

#nature #nature-of-things #transitions #transitions-in-life #change