#han

The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#change

Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place. ↗

— Mike Yankoski

#homelessness #change

Because I don't think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don't doubt that a man like that can change the world...or at least a little part of it. ↗

— Chris Fabry

#change #christian #god #heartache #hope

My advice is to write in the nude. Unless you do your writing in a public restroom, and in that case, I’d recommend wearing flip flops. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#writing #change

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives. ↗

— Deborah Day

#flexable #open-mind #open-mindedness #positive-thinking #change

If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. "Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#concentration #focus #change

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#change

But no one may know the shape of the tale in which they move. And, perhaps, we do not truly know which sort of beast it is, either. Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#stories #trouble #change

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

#change #truth #change

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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