#hang

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#life-experience #past #change

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me. ↗

— Lisa Genova

#change

That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#life #time-passing #change

Success is a decision, not a gift. ↗

— Steve Backley

#change

and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all. ↗

— Jaclyn Moriarty

#inspirational #change

Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite ↗

— P.C. Cast

#humor #change

And here you will stay, Gandalf the Grey, and rest from journeys. For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman the Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!" "I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#saruman #change

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#flux #reflux #truth #wisdom #change

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person. ↗

— Aimee Friedman

#summer #vacation #change

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group--a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project. ↗

— Cornel West

#critical-reflection #improve #individuality #jazz #jazz-freedom-fighter