#change

Leaning against my car after changing the oil, I hold my black hands out and stare into them as if they were the faces of my children looking at the winter moon and thinking of the snow that will erase everything before they wake. In the garage, my wife comes behind me and slides her hands beneath my soiled shirt. Pressing her face between my shoulder blades, she mumbles something, and soon we are laughing, wrestling like children among piles of old rags, towels that unravel endlessly, torn sheets, work shirts from twenty years ago when I stood in the door of a machine shop, grease blackened, and Kansas lay before me blazing with new snow, a future of flat land, white skies, and sunlight. After making love, we lie on the abandoned mattress and stare at our pale winter bodies sprawling in the half-light. She touches her belly, the scar of our last child, and the black prints of my hand along her hips and thighs. ↗

— B.H. Fairchild

#marriage #change

Why are you trying to be something you’re not?” I shrugged, “People change, get used to it Alex. It’s not like you know me anyway.” He nodded, “You’ve got that right. I just hope you haven’t lost yourself in the process … it would be a real shame if you couldn’t find your way back.” I frowned at him, “And what the hell is that supposed to mean Alex?” He studied my eyes intently, “I just don’t want you to forget who you truly are … because I liked that girl. ↗

— J.C. McClean

#change

I wanted to smell the guitars. It's hard to explain but they have a smell. And the best way I could ever describe it would be to say they smell like potential. Ambition and desire. If such things had a smell. ↗

— Barbara Hall

#change

Secular humanists of every type may ridicule the Bible, but they cannot escape it; and in their obsession with change, calls for reform, doomsday warnings, and utopian visions, they continue to steal from it. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#secularism #change

It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one's nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone. ↗

— Anna Comnena

#metamorphosis #change

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#probability #change

Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages... ↗

— Charles Leadbeater

#science #youth #change

I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the change was adjustment without improvement. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#change

What is it about human nature that when we are touched in a way that is life changing we want to share the experience with others. I have to think it is about bringing gifts from spirit back to the spirit in humans. All I know is that after I experienced the four years of intimate conversations with God/spirit/my higher self/the universe and the resulting growth and healing, I would ask myself, “What should I do?” and the answer was always, relentlessly, write a book and share it. ↗

— Bobbi Junod

#personal-growth #spirituality #change

Books are portable companions. But so are midgets.
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— Jarod Kintz

#friendship #change