#hang

Fight for change? Thirst for difference? Start talking what men avoid talking about. ↗

— Toba Beta

#change #difference #fight #start-talking #taboo

it's not his body that changes right away. it's something inside. he says he wants to be a little weaker. i don't understand. i say 'thinner?' and he says 'no, i want to be stronger in a different way.' not because of me, but for me. ↗

— David Levithan

#strength #weight #change

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#change #humility #leadership #change

The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right. ↗

— Steve Backley

#change

Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered. ↗

— Eilis O'Neal

#humor #love #marriage #change

...Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appeared and what streamed out before us was not the future. We felt our bodies growing and were at times impatient to be grown up, half for the sake of those with nothing left but their grownupness. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#childhood #fourth-elegy #change

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust. ↗

— C.J. Mahaney

#change

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever. ↗

— Graham Greene

#pain #time #change

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243) ↗

— Norman Doidge

#death #ghosts #grief #healing-the-past #loss

White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female…. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, who has a sense of humor. This guy is such a moron! It's beyond the point where it's a joke. He's an idiot. ↗

— Denis Leary

#bush #politics #president #change