#change

His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father's death and even the mortality inherent in the dying, wildly colored canopy of leaves, he somehow understood that life was only what one did every day.... Nothing was like anything else, including himself, and everything was changing all of the time. He knew he couldn't perceive the change because he was changing too, along with everything else. (from the novella, The Man Who Gave Up His Name) ↗

— Jim Harrison

#philosophy #change

But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#change #inspirational #life #love #attitude

People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#change #changing #changing-people #circumstances #life

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #changed #come #completely #could

Only idiots refuse to change their minds. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#idiots #minds #only #refuse #their

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. ↗

— Mark Twain

#changes #christian #contents #medical #practice

Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#changed #islam #nothing #perfect

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me. ↗

— Shania Twain

#because #change #cries #good #holding

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#change #characters #different #different kinds #especially

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year. ↗

— Gerry Beckley

#album #beatles #changes #decade #depending