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… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy ↗

— Philip Levine

#diamonds #rivers #stars #water #change

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

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He didn’t operate on the same frequency as everyone else. On one hand, he was more dangerous than anyone I’d ever met. He could slip into a room, kill you with a spatula, and be out of town before anyone knew about it. On the other, he was the most pure, untarnished soul I’d ever come across. It was an odd mix so uniquely Kale, and I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world. ↗

— Jus Accardo

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You can't change the past, only your perception of it; but you can control the future. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #future #past #perception #change

It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#consequences-truth #lies #change

Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever. ↗

— Karen Davison

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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change. ↗

— Linda P. Rouse

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Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective. What changed my perspective, was her. ↗

— Richie Singh

#compliment #hope #inspirational #love #perspective

Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies. ↗

— Jack Zipes

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