#ge

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#testimony #transparency #courage

Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135) ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#help #protection #change

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#life #stories #writing #change

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it’s not quite the same thing. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#change

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#course #determined #difference #group #history

Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#change

As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#change

The stubborn of a captive mentality can be clearly seen in the formulation of national development plans in most developing nations where the fundamental meaning and criteria of knowledge and development, modernization and reform, progress and change, happiness, tolerance, pluralism and their respective antonyms - such as under-development and corruption - are all derived from Western frameworks. Sometimes the strangest phenomenon surfaces - such as when the methodology of understanding and teaching indigenous religions is regarded as being uncritical and less objective if it does not utilize the methods developed by Western scholars in the understanding and teaching Western religions and religious texts. ↗

— Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

#change

You become what you think about most of the time ↗

— Brian Tracy

#change

Low states are a like a poison to the psyche. Millions of people throughout the world take tranquillizers each day to combat depression, but this does not tackle its root cause, which is found in the basic state of the internal energies of the psyche. Basically the energy of the psyche needs to change, from low states to spiritual ones. It requires inner observation, the destruction of the egos, and alchemical transformation. ↗

— Belsebuub

#self-knowledge #spiritual #change