#chan

The truth is that not story or life lived goes on without the experiences changing you. For better or worse, life does that. The events that take place make you who you are. Sometimes they take more than you have to give. ↗

— Joann Buchanan

#change

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#come #going #how #i #inspired

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#buyers #due #earn #exchange #goods

Change is inevitable. Change is constant. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#constant #inevitable

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#chances #control #did #everything #feel

If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the last stop, to continue in the same vein, a vein I had struck when I was a child and went down in the street for the first time alone and there frozen into the dirty ice of the gutter lay a dead cat, the first time I had looked at death and grasped it. From that moment I knew what it was to be isolated: every object, every living thing and every dead thing led its independent existence. My thoughts too led to an independent existence. ↗

— Henry Miller

#existence #life #nihilism #tropic-of-capricorn #change

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything. ↗

— Willie Dixon

#everything #exchanged #happened #look #miracle

And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#become #chances #done #i #know

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#before #change #good #i #lot

I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#develop #good #had #i #life