#hang

These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock. ↗

— Steve Backley

#change

Back when I was a competitive swimmer, I used to dream of going to the Olympics. But then I changed my mind, once I found out how expensive the tickets are.
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— Jarod Kintz

#dream #expensive #mental #mind #olympics

So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but also on your eyes so as to change your outlook. But wait a minute. No, I do not propose to operate at all. I myself cannot do anything of the sort. I am just mildly suggesting that you are perhaps dead, and perhaps blind, leaving you to think the matter over for yourself. If an operation is to be performed it must be performed by God Himself. ↗

— Cornelius Van Til

#change

Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#sexes #change

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#racism #social-change #change

Thus it is well to seem merciful faithful humane religious and upright and also to be so but the mind should remain so balanced that were it needful not to be so you should be able and know how to change to the contrary. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#sovereignty #change

Lord, I can’t live in his mashed potato world. I need my tubers scalloped and diced and baked and fried and different every time. I need excitement and change as much as I need air. ↗

— Lorna Seilstad

#change

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#change #guts #humankind #reading #writing

…move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever. ↗

— Gordon Korman

#change