#ill

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#free-will #prophecy #change

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote. ↗

— Megan Gallagher

#carter #chris #i #willing #wrote

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#eternity #free-will #maturity #melancholy #pain

Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#mandos #manwë #silmarillion #varda #beauty

It's only a house when it's filled with people you love. ↗

— Andrea Thompson

#house #love #only #people #you

You belong with us," he said quietly. "Nothing's going to change that. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#change

When all great movements are in their infancy, they are nourished basically on the mother's milk of righteous indignation. It is a time of red-faced screaming and finger pointing. That's a good thing - we need to be angry to move toward any systemic change. But ultimately the fingers have to stop pointing and the hand has got to get down to work - and the work is always messy. ↗

— Jackson Galaxy

#no-kill #change

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#change #inertia #influence #willpower #change

Well, I guess it’s all in God’s hands anyway. He has a way of making things turn out,” Mattie asserted. “Yes, He does. Doesn’t He? Thank you for reminding me of that, Mattie.” She gave her friend a hug. “Sometimes it’s hard not to second guess the choices I’ve made.” “I know what you mean. When life brings changes, I think we tend to do that more.” Mattie wiped away a tear. “I miss the old life sometimes, but I know this is God’s will for me. And God’s will is always best, whether we realize it at the time or not. ↗

— J.E.B. Spredemann

#god-s-will #change

For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind... ↗

— Tove Jansson

#illness #change