#die

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves. ↗

— Charles Yu

#change #chronodiegetic-manipulation #good-news #life #the-universe

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor. ↗

— James A. Michener

#black-swan #chance #michener #poland #soldier

When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed. ↗

— Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

#historical-perspective #media-studies #change

This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity. ↗

— Jaroslav Hašek

#svejk #the-good-soldier-svejk #change

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it. ↗

— Patti Davis

#did #die #how #leave #life

To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask? ↗

— Chip Heath

#communication #get-them-to-think #communication

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. ↗

— Ernst Moritz Arndt

#dies #god-like #good #nothing #really

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#carpe-diem #commitment #courage #here-and-now #indiviuality

There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last. ↗

— David T. Dellinger

#courage #justice #resistance #courage

Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ; Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ; Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ; Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and disdained ; Courage that suns Only foolhardiness ; even by these, are ye worthy of your guns. ↗

— Gilbert Frankau

#guns #soldiers #suffering #trenches #war