#hang

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#gave #i #lot #success #things

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#around #audiences #awful #because #change

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#better #dilemma #get #hate #love

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#changes #comes #temperature #written #you

No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth. What value to me will these discontented pages be? The book, the vow, are worth no more than one is worth oneself. One can never be sure of saving one's soul by writing. One may go writing on and on with a soul already lost. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#our-ancestors #the-non-existent-knight #change

A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#change

You want to change things, Joe, but you can’t. Not like this. You can’t save what’s been left behind. Only what’s in front of you. ↗

— Maria Rachel Hooley

#change

I leaned my face into his palm and he looked at me like it was the first time he ever saw me. I felt my heart burst. I wanted him to kiss me. I didn’t care about what he owned, or what issues he had. I knew if we kissed, it would change us both. Even worse, I wanted to say I loved him. ↗

— Mercy Cortez

#love #romance #change

Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind. 'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom ↗

— Joseph Goldstein

#inspirational #change

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life. ↗

— Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

#hope #love #meaning #reverence #change