#hang

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#changing #choosing #friend #slow #slower

I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle! ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#lewis-carroll #change

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#ideas #reading #words #change

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular. ↗

— Lisa Lutz

#change #philosophy #psychology #truth #wisdom

I cry a lot.' 'Yeah? Well I'm gonna change that. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#maggie #change

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#religion #change

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. ↗

— Ken Robinson

#failure #original #change

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#time #change

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life #change