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Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#change

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time. ↗

— Sara Paddison

#life #love #people #change

Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#compassion #history #kindness #life #mission

Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#romance #change

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend. ↗

— Steve Lopez

#friendship #change

Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#life #change

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. ↗

— Akhenaton

#folly #fool #his #ignorance #knoweth

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#better person #i #learn #life #my life

[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#change

The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and poor, the racism, the use of victims against one another, the lack of resources of the underclass to speak out, the endless "reforms" that changed little. Dostoevski once said: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#justice-system #change