#eh

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#apprehension #deep #earliest #fears #glimpse

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#religion #change

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#change

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#beauty

I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you. ↗

— Elvia Alvarado

#christian-behavior #life #spirituality #change

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#change

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#change

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#behind #great #i #learnt #little

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#change #circumstances #change

People who discriminate doesn't understand that they are a stranger to others. ↗

— Jestoni Revealed

#social-change #change