#hang

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. ↗

— Sophocles

#character #course #crime #failure #mistakes

Um...perhaps I will go with Grandfather," Nilima said. She set down the scissors, looked at my expression, and then changed her mind and took them with her. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#change

If you love someone, why would you want that person to change? ↗

— Hailey Abbott

#romance #young-adult #change

To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions. ↗

— William James

#change

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. ↗

— John Rogers

#ayn-rand #jrr-tolkien #lord-of-the-rings #change

Start with the end in mind. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#change

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#disappointment #joy #suffering #change

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. ↗

— Malcolm X

#reading #change

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#change

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#chance #life #love #change