#change

We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us. ↗

— J.D. Greear

#gospel #change

The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

#control #habits #change

Everything change with mine, Katya. ↗

— Dana Stabenow

#kate-shugak-series #whisper-to-the-blood #change

One play can determine the course of a game. One play can change your momentum forever. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. ↗

— Freya Stark

#change

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t ↗

— Stephen Fry

#happiness #humour #change

A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame. A rose may earn another name, So call it love; So call it love I will, And love is like the sea, Which changes constantly, And yet is still The same. ↗

— Tanith Lee

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Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none. ↗

— John Green

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It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#change #politics #change

Mom: 'I really have to stop doing this. I need to get a life.' I think she's directing this at herself, or the universe, not really at me. Still, I can't help thinking that 'getting a life' is something only a complete idiot could believe. Like you can just drive to a store and get a life. See it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, 'Wow, I look much happier - I think this is the life I need to get!" Take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. If getting a life was that easy, we'd be one blissed-out race. But we're not. So it's like, Mom, your life isn't out there waiting, so don't think all you have to do is find it and get it. No, your life is right here. And yeah, it sucks. Lives usually do. So if you want things to change, you don't need to get a life. You need to get off your ass. ↗

— John Green

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