#han

Quadruple crap. Why couldn’t I control myself? Why did he have this effect on me? “Are you compelling me right now?” To my surprise, his smile held an edge of sadness. “That would give you a much needed excuse, but I am afraid I am not.” Curse my body for reacting to his. As long as I kept him out of my heart, I would be okay. “I think it a bit too late for that, my dear.” “You’re using old man speak again.” I made a face. “It’s creepy.” He chuckled. “I’ll try to remember that, but I haven’t been around humans much in the past hundred years. It’s hard to keep up with the changes in common dialect.” “Let’s keep on topic, Jett. You were going to teach me how to control my mind. ↗

— Christie Rich

#change

If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information. ↗

— Heather Graham

#change

From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change. ↗

— Pat Allwright

#change #change

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore. ↗

— Keith Gessen

#change

The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges. ↗

— Wallace Broecker

#global-warming #change

Change your thoughts, Change your world ↗

— Wayne W. Dyer

#change

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time. ↗

— Wendy Williams

#science #change

…it can hardly be over-exaggerated that speculative thinking is always drawn from the necessities of the time, that it is always practical, that it always shifts with the interests of the times, with the changes of social, economic, and political conditions, and finally, that it is vain to hope to find an eternal, fixed, and immutable system of philosophy, and still hope for progress. A fixed system is applicable only to a dead society. ↗

— Holly Estil Cunningham

#philosophy #society #change

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#heaven #idealism #progress #change

Wars come and wars go,' he said. 'Things change, but the carousel is always here. It reminds people of the good times. ↗

— Glenda Millard

#good-times #remind #war #change