#chan

Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies. ↗

— Gina Lake

#self-awareness #self-confidence #self-improvement #change

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it ↗

— Arthur Golden

#geisha #memoirs #change

Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#lolita #nabokov #change

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#ethics #practice #religion #theology #change

Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You. ↗

— Juan de la Cruz

#christian #god-s-grace #god-s-love #hope #perseverance

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives. ↗

— Steve Martin

#inspirational #thoughtful #change

You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness. ↗

— Max Lucado

#forgiveness #god #heaven #love #lucado

Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you--whatever makes you most you. - Jim Olsten (Jane's Grandpa) ↗

— Elizabeth Chandler

#change

Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#change

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything. ↗

— Kate Morton

#thresholds #change