#chan

Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out. ↗

— Mary E. Pearson

#change

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#change #change

So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#complicated #friends #like #sadness #seventh-grade

If you want to change your life, then first of all you will have to change decoding of your mind (the way you see, the way you hear, the way you think). ↗

— Sunil maurya

#change

It had been a little over a year since the last murder; moreover it had been a year since I had run as quickly as legally possible from whom I had been. It had taken almost that long to become a legal adult, get the money straightened out and get my name changed. Who was Abigail? Who was Vera? I felt as though I was neither person. I felt like I wasn’t a person at all anymore. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#walking-in-the-shadows #ya-romance #ya-suspense #ya-thriller #change

We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#friendships #life #perspective #story #change

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. ↗

— Malcolm X

#reading #change

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#change

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#chance #life #love #change

Love hurts when it changes us. ↗

— Toba Beta

#love-hurts #change