#chan

During this kind of highly structured, self-motivated hard work, Csikszentmihalyi wrote, we regularly achieve the greatest form of happiness available to human beings: intense, optimistic engagement with the world around us. We feel fully alive, full of potential and purpose--in other words, we are completely activated as human beings. ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#games #happiness #human-potential #change

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#inspirational #change

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#green #sustainability #change

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#leadership #change

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. ↗

— Wayne W. Dyer

#change

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#soldiers #war #change

She made a good point. So did her nipples. ↗

— Jaci Burton

#gavin #change

If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now that’s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters and whittles away his morality, casting bits and pieces aside, his codes change to reflect it. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#morality #change

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it. ↗

— Frank Warren

#change

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form? ↗

— Tad Williams

#energy #perception #change