#hang

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~ variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer ↗

— Reinhold Neibuhr

#change

But neither could compare with the gargantuan natural edifice that was the mountain upon which Nachtstürm Castle rose. It was a mountain made of the darkness between two lightning bolts. It was made less of earth than Stygian frost. Whole towns fell away as they ascended, as though the ranks of black and frowning conifers waged war against the humans below. Even the path – rather narrow and rarely straight – seemed less made by centuries of pilgrim feet and more by the trace of some careless demon’s claw. It was, in fact, perfect. ↗

— Emily C.A. Snyder

#jane-austen #nachtsturm-castle #northanger-abbey #nature

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#death #dream #killing #luthiel #change

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. ↗

— Brené Brown

#creativity #innovation #vulnerability #change

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#dictator #evil #ignorance #specieism #vegan

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#live #change

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#education #history #change

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#war #change

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#crime #love #seeing #change

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#change