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Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#justice #progressivism #visionary #well-being #change

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day. ↗

— Barbara Hambly

#change

There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every time. I think that running is the way a horse may laugh out loud. When I am older I will believe that following in their wake has filled me with the inconsolable joy of animals. ↗

— Mark Spragg

#change

It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a proud family. Your ancestors fought in the Crusades and were often mentioned in despatches, and you cringe like a salted snail at the thought of appearing as Santa Claus before an audience of charming children who wouldn't hurt a fly. It's enough to make an aunt turn her face to the wall and give up the struggle. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humorous #wodehouse #change

I am fond of the sound of horses in the night. The lifting of feet. Stamping. The clicking of their iron shoes against rock. They mouth one anothers withers and rear and squeal and whirl and shuffle and cough and stand and snort. There is the combined rumblings of each individual gut. They sound larger than they are. The air tastes of horses, ripples as though come alive with their good-hearted strength and stamina. ↗

— Mark Spragg

#change

God is Change. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#god #change

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy. ↗

— Theodore Dalrymple

#intellectuals #polticians #change

Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it. ↗

— Richard Wiseman

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What's with the "iMagic" name change?' I said without preamble. 'Industrial Magic was a bit of a mouthful,' he explained. 'Besides, putting an "i"in front of anything makes it more hip and current. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

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We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #human-nature #change