#hang

The boatman then gently guided the raft across. They saw a dead body floating. At the sight of this, the Master was greatly frightened. But Sun smiled and said, "Master do not be alarmed! That corpse is none other than your own." Zhu Bajie said, "It is you, it is you!" Sha the Monk clapped his hands, and also said, "It is you, it is you!" The boatman also remarked "It was yours, I congratulate you." The three pilgrims congratulated him, and they quietly crossed over the Could Ferry in safety. The Master's shape was changed, and he jumped ashore on the other side with a very light body. ↗

— Wu Cheng'en

#monkey #rebirth #change

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#life #paradise #sacred-economics #social-change #social-vision

When people visit my farm they often envision their dog, finally off-leash in acres of safely fenced countryside, running like Lassie in a television show, leaping over fallen tree trunks, shiny-eyed with joy at the change to run free in the country. While they're imagining that heartwarming scene, their dog is most likely gobbling up sheep poop as fast as he can. Dog aren't people, and if they have their own image of heaven, it most likely involves poop. ↗

— Patricia B. McConnell

#change

There is no greater catalyst for change in a man than a woman. To love a woman is to become a new kind of man, in one direction or another. A woman holds sway over all. The right woman can assume command of your every part of your being, both body and soul. Her conquest will be total. ↗

— Bryan M. Litfin

#woman #change

All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#equity #gay-rights #homosexuality #hope #law

How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#change

The changes that are external and limited to surface are temporary and fade away quickly. We should make the inner changes so that the reflection of them outside would be what we expect. ↗

— Ilia M. R.

#life #change

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry! ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#change

There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people weren’t even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for all the wrong reasons. Love, principles, dreams, desire. The world hadn’t changed. It had always been survival of the fittest. ↗

— Claire Merle

#survival #change

The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#inspirational-quotes #motivational-quotes #responsibility #change