#i

Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#change

 If the future of humanity truly depends on our children...then let's do our best to protect and better our future each and everyday. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational

You want to know a secret?" "Always." "My real name is Dave." "I see." "This doesn't seem to amuse you." "I met Jeremy the troll a few nights ago." "Seriously?" "Seriously. Also known as the Mighty Raaaarrggh! Although...I can sorta see why you changed the name. 'Dave' isn't knwon for its mysterious, mystic sexiness. ↗

— Kate Griffin

#matthew-swift #names #change

When you lose a friend [in battle] you have an overpowering desire to go back home and yell in everybody's ear, "This guy was killed fighting for you. Don't forget him--ever. Keep him in your mind when you wake up in the morning and when you go to bed at night. Don't think of him as the statistic which changes 38,788 casualties to 38,789. Think of him as a guy who wanted to live every bit as much as you do. Don't let him be just one of 'Our Brave Boys' from the old home town, to whom a marble monument is erected in the city park, and a civic-minded lady calls the newspaper ten years later and wants to know why that 'unsightly stone' isn't removed. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#friendship #war #change

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#life #change

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#life #questions #change

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspirational #kindness #change

Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom. ↗

— Feroz Bham

#change #leaf #life #change

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#change

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#leo-tolstoy #literature #russia #change