#hanging

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life-changing #moody #moving #ocean #vastness

Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young. ↗

— Sergei Yesenin

#life-changing #russian-poetry #sorrow #change

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#changing #growing-up #growth #journey #leaving

There is a little word that we can say to others now. "Thank You Very Much". ↗

— Marya Sy

#life-changing #thanks #words-of-wisdom #change

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#illness #inspirational #life #life-changing #meaning

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#down #stable #things #top #works

There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#always #been #changing #culture #difficult

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#building #changing #daily #eroding #gradually

Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional. ↗

— Jahangir Khan

#changing #coverage #everything #game #lots

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#definitely #gay #had #i #knew