#change

Change is inevitable, progress is not. ↗

— Max McKeown

#change #improvement #life #progress #change

Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity of his secret intent, secret creation—the day before everything changed—the day before he realized, for the first time, yet with absolute finality, just how small his private immensity really was when measured against that other vast, dark, impersonal immensity, call it God, or history, or simply life. ↗

— Olga Grushin

#novel #surrealism #change

Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t. ↗

— Dave Guerrero

#hate #life #living #love #change

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a morality without sin as of an earth without 'sky'. Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes. The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#christianity #morality #religion #change

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step. ↗

— Scott Walker

#congress #fall #look #new #next

We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#autonomy #bahrain #iraq #iraq-war #kurdish-people

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#nostalgia #peace #change

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it. ↗

— Eli Wallach

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