#chan

When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey . . . ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life-journey #map #pursuit-of-happiness #change

When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#bad-behavior #bullying #energy-healing #enlightenment #god

I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth. ↗

— James Lovelock

#change

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. ↗

— King George V

#bathroom #chance #go #you

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#behavior #changes #values #your

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#best #change #changes #choose #i

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. ↗