#hang

There is a little word that we can say to others now. "Thank You Very Much". ↗

— Marya Sy

#life-changing #thanks #words-of-wisdom #change

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#chaos #civilization #desires #necessity #order

I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#amazing #change #creating #enhancement #greatness

Do not go changing in your nature just to satisfy any creature. ↗

— Rawan M. ElBanna

#change

Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it? ↗

— Michelle Madow

#time-travel-romance #time-traveling #change

He tossed back the last of the blood. "I'm going to be young forever. I can do anything I want. Drink as much as I want. Sleep with anyone. Live a life of debauchery. And I'll never change. I'm like Dorian Gray." His eyebrows knit together, and he thought for a moment. "Without all the homosexual undertones. ↗

— Thomas Galvin

#vamps #change

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#pain #transformation #tribulations #change

I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change. ↗

— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#stepfamily #stepmother #change

If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ? ↗

— Yasmin Ahmad

#change #film #film-director #love #malay

GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current… ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#life #metaphor #change