#hang

The more I protested about this ambiguity, the more Joanna pointed out to me that it was both a terrible and wonderful part of life: terrible because you can't count on anything for sure--like certain good health and no possibility of cancer; wonderful because no human being knows when another is going to die--no doctor can absolutely predict the outcome of a disease. The only thing that is certain is change. Joanna calls all of this 'delicious ambiguity.' 'Couldn't there be comfort and freedom in no one knowing the outcome of anything and all things being possible?' she asked. Was I convinced? Not completely. I still wanted to believe in magic thinking. But I was intrigued. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#honest #intriguing #possibilities #change

There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#change

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#change

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter... ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#history #incorporation #change

Change will always come by using unconditional love and inspiring all that you can. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#change

If only you could have witnessed how much I have changed: sit alone in a disused theatre and feel what I have felt, see how the world has transformed me, like the metamorphosis of a caterpillar. ↗

— Kiera Woodhull

#growing-up #independence #poetry #change

Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate ↗

— Robin Hobb

#catalyst #robin-hobb #the-fool #change

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #youth #change

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works. ↗

— Seth Godin

#change

So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. ↗

— Jack Layton

#change