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Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#dictator #evil #ignorance #specieism #vegan

Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson. Cat. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#catelyn-stark #george-r-r-martin #robb-stark #winter-is-coming #winterfell

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#live #change

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#education #history #change

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#war #change

It is unforgivable that men and women who have worked the land and served us for generations should be so bewildered and fearful, because of laws made to accommodate the greed of others," Darcy said, "Laws are meant to make the lives of citizens better, not worse. ↗

— Rebecca Ann Collins

#darcy #laws #pride-and-prejudice #regency #men

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#crime #love #seeing #change

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#change

Change has to come for life to struggle forward. ↗

— Helen Hollick

#life #moving-forward #moving-on #change

I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, "What do you think you and Hugh have done which was the best for your children?" I answered immediately and without thinking, "We love each other. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#true-love #walking-on-water #art