#ife

Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us? ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#life #parents #righteousness #change

Life is perphas after all simply this thing and then the next. We are all of us improvising. We find a careful balance only to discover that gravity or stasis or love or dismay or illness or some other force suddenly tows us in an unexpected direction. We wake up to find that we have changed abruptly in a way that is perculiar and inexplicable. We are constanly adjusting, making it up, feeling our way forward, figuring out how to be and where to go next. We work it out, how to be happy, but sooner or later comes a change-sometimes something small, sometimes everything at once- and we have to start over again, feeling our way back to a provisional state of contentment. ↗

— Anne Giardini

#life #start-over #change

One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#event #gratitude #life-changing #moment #change

Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props. ↗

— Lindsey Leavitt

#life #wisdom #change

Allowing others to step ontop of you makes them look a fool, allowing yourself to be taken advantage of is making you look a fool. . . ↗

— Amanda Voir

#inspiration #life-quote #change

We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#life #nature #watching #change

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#loneliness #longing #change

Another summer day has come and gone away in Paris and Rome, but I wanna go home..." Home-Alan Chang; Amy Foster-Gillies; Michael Buble ↗

— Karla M. Nashar

#beauty

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#heart #life #living #needs #perception

And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#change