#chan

I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba. ↗

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

#change #chapter #citizen #come #convinced

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism. ↗

— Andy Dick

#defense #defense mechanism #i #i see #i think

Time held no meaning as my mind darted in and out of memories. Past and present collided to create a full-sensory collage out of my life: playing hide-n-seek with my best friends Luke—who always cheated by walking through walls when he was about to be caught—and Lucy; Mr. Caldrin critiquing my sketches and offering ideas to make them more realistic; targets changing faces, blending into the same person, their thoughts rippling through my mind like waves. Through it all, a demon stalked me from the shadows of my memories, never quite showing its face, but crouching, waiting. And then I dreamed.... ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#poetic-prose #change

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#change #force #greatest #i #must

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. ↗

— Joan Didion

#dinner #down #ends #fast #instant

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. ↗

— Joan Didion

#instant #life #life changes #ordinary

Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions. ↗

— Steve Backley

#change

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#age #around #been #careful #chance

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#changes #conceive #could #fixed #forces

The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#changed #country #cruel #forever #freedom