#hang

Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered -- that is when we feel the greatest pain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life #pain #change

For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must first understand the nature of the force behind its existence. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#philosophy-of-religion #reid-ashbaucher #the-nature-of-god #change

You are equipped to change atmospheres. The first one is your own. Rise up. Speak to your mountains and they will fall. Partner with Heaven and see it come to your rescue. ↗

— Jenelle Dancel

#god #heaven #hope #inspirational #change

A guarantee in this life: Change! Flexibility is better than predictability! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#flexibility #predictability #change

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever. ↗

— Steven J. Carroll

#life #life-and-living #life-changing #life-lessons #travel

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#story #writer #writing #change

I'll tell you this much. Men think memories are like murals or statues or truth or whatever happened, never changes none. But that ain't so. They can capture the untruth of something, just as easy. They can change, especially as time leads to time. (...) To each man himself, his memories seems as solid and factual as a stone mosaic, an urn he could turn around and heft, a flower he could sniff. But when I go inside another, I don't see it or feel it like that. Everything is shimmery, shifting, like it's bathed in mist and shadow, like... like walking down the foggiest street you can think of, with everything looking not like itself at all. ↗

— Jeff Salyards

#change

The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change. ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#change

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#community #greed #honesty #change

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice. ↗

— Sylvia Boorstein

#meditation #mindfulness #peace #change