#ge

Just as an astronomer, alone in an observatory, watches night after night through a telescope the myriads of stars, their mysterious movements, their changeful medley, their extinction and their flaming-up anew, so did Jacob Mendel, seated at his table in the Cafe Gluck, look through his spectacles into the universe of books, a universe that lies above the world of our everyday life, and, like the stellar universe, is full of changing cycles. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#change

Sometimes you have to realise that things will never change if you don’t make a change yourself, and sometimes, you need to realise that it only happened so that you could learn something. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#inspirational #motivational #realisation #self-growth #change

You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. ↗

— Olorunthobby De Successor

#change

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break. ↗

— Émile Zola

#fidelity #love #loyalty #change

I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats. ↗

— Emma Brockes

#musicals #change

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#elsewhere #exists #i #i think #intelligent

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. ↗

— Archilochus

#boast #cast #courage #field #find

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#achieving #become #get #goals #important

My parents separated when I was younger. ↗

— Tina Turner

#parents #separated #younger

Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice. ↗

— Rob Liano

#commitment #divorce #hate #inspiration #inspirational