#comp

Life has two choices: create or destruct. These choices are the backbone for all, within oneself and outside oneself. Too many ways of thinking are described by too many people that have no idea. If you're attached to your ways then detach, so you can change. Use this detachment in your writing, relationships, and understanding of life. Our future as individuals, as nations, and as mankind can only go one way. It's our choice whether we want the painful path or the peaceful path. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#counteracting-pain #hope #living-in-creativity #love #peace

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#completed #copiously #force #mobilization #most

After dinner that evening they retired to her bedchamber. Gideon had quite opened her eyes over the last few days. Quick trysts in carriages were one thing, but when they were in bed . . . Oh, the things he did to her. He maneuvered her, flipping and turning and arranging limbs as though she weighed nothing. The rhythm never lost, each change in position finding some new sublime spot. ↗

— Evangeline Collins

#evangeline-collins #her-ladyship-s-companion #change

If you aren't diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it. ↗

— Rob Liano

#complaint #personal-development #personal-growth #change

We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#compassion #evolution #humanity #remove #change

A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#change

The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#computers #day #eat #getting #healthier

You know," she had said, "I believe we are all given at least one moment in our lives when the world reveals itself to us, in all its workings. We comprehend everything at once, and then forget almost all of it a second later, because none of us could hold it all in our heads. But we are changed afterward," shaking her head, "in a most profound way. ↗

— Brian Francis Slattery

#change

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice. ↗

— Brené Brown

#compassion #virtue #courage

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains. ↗

— George Sand

#god #sorrow #strength #courage