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The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#change

You can’t change the past, it just is ↗

— Alyson Noel

#damon #ever #riley #change

With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#change

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. ↗

— John Cheever

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The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#progress #renewal #change

Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.” “I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.” If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently. ↗

— Wall Street Journal

#business

As I have learned over the years, your friends don’t change; you just learn to ignore or embrace the bad bits. ↗

— Carrie Adams

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New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them? ↗

— H.G. Wells

#change #participation #change

We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#parenting #change