#hang

To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make? ↗

— Charles Fuller

#activism #protest #change

Life is perphas after all simply this thing and then the next. We are all of us improvising. We find a careful balance only to discover that gravity or stasis or love or dismay or illness or some other force suddenly tows us in an unexpected direction. We wake up to find that we have changed abruptly in a way that is perculiar and inexplicable. We are constanly adjusting, making it up, feeling our way forward, figuring out how to be and where to go next. We work it out, how to be happy, but sooner or later comes a change-sometimes something small, sometimes everything at once- and we have to start over again, feeling our way back to a provisional state of contentment. ↗

— Anne Giardini

#life #start-over #change

She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#tiger-lily #change

One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#event #gratitude #life-changing #moment #change

Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props. ↗

— Lindsey Leavitt

#life #wisdom #change

All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted by you.  That would have changed everything. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#fate #need #richelle #richelle-goodrich #want

Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back of her skull. I tried to read her thoughts. For once I didn't feel like I was staring into the sun. I'm rising to my wife's level of madness. Because I can feel her changing me again: I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage. It's a story I can live with. Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#favorites #marriage #thriller #change

But I’ve kept first of March as my birthday as I like to tease Zed about dating an older woman. And my parents wouldn’t understand if I told them about the soulfinder bond and tried to change it.” “They don’t know?” “Well, I think they’ve picked up that there’s something special between Zed and me but I’m not sure how I’d even start to explain to non-savants. I was exactly overjoyed when Zed filled me in about it all the first time.” “What did you do?” “Thumped him with a shopping bag and told him he was a jerk.” “Ouch. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#phee #phoenix #sky #stealing-phoenix #zed

You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for? ↗

— Isaac Marion

#inspiration #change

At my last birthday party I had fun and really let myself go. Literally. I opened the cages where I keep my clones and I let myself go, all 333 versions of myself. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#absurdity #birthday #clones #change