#change

No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future ↗

— Umar ibn Al-Khattab

#insparational #life #regret #worrying #change

I remain ‘torn’ (between a ‘hyberbolic’ ethical vision of forgiveness, pure forgiveness, and the reality of a society at work in pragmatic processes of reconciliation). But without power, desire, or need to decide. The two poles are irreducible to one another, certainly, but they remain indissociable. In order to inflect politics, or what you just called the ‘pragmatic processes’, in order to change the law (which, thus, finds itself between the two poles, the ‘ideal’ and the ‘empirical’ – and what is more important to me here is, between these two, this universalising mediation, this history of the law, the possibility of this progress of the law), it is necessary to refer to a ‘“hyperbolic” ethical vision of forgiveness’. Even if I were not sure of the words ‘vision’ or ‘ethics’ in this case, let us say that only this inflexible exigence can orient a history of laws, and evolution of the law. It alone can inspire here, now, in the urgency, without waiting, response and responsibilities. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#law #change

Worrying cannot change a thing, but faith can change everything. ↗

— Tracie Miles

#faith #god #worry #change

Change is the one sure thing in life ↗

— Kate Lord Brown

#life #life-lessons #change

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear? ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#be #let-it-be #mindfulness #moment #change

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men. ↗

— Nawal El Saadawi

#solidarity #change

A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation. ↗

— Carol Morgan

#placement-of-words #writing #change

You’re going back?” asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. “You’re really leaving? But. You’re my guardian.” “I was you’re guardian. But you are old enough to guard yourself. I have other things to protect. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#melancholy #sad #change

How are you feeling Sweet Peach?” he enquires as he walks across to the chest of drawers, selects a pair of socks and pulls them on. Sweet Peach? What the hell? He’s definitely gay … I shrug. “Er … okay, I guess. I really don’t remember much though. How did I get here … and why am I wearing your t-shirt?” I ask hesitantly, afraid of the answer. Hagen laughs nervously. “I brought you home when you couldn’t tell me where you lived. And don’t worry, you got changed all by yourself … in the kitchen … for like an hour. ↗

— J.C. McClean

#hangover #humour #change

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. ↗

— John Milton

#epic-poem #john #milton #paradise-lost #satan