#inspirationa

When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#change

Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured or wounded us. We are actually pleading for our very natures to be changed, for our character and disposition to become more and more like the Savior's, so that we literally feel as He would feel and thus do what He would do. ↗

— Sheri L. Dew

#compassion #inspirational #lds #change

I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would never see the horizon and the sun setting on it, we would never know that there's something far better beyond where we are at the moment. It can hurt, but then later you say "thank you." I have been pushed and shoved and have fallen out and away, so very, very, many, many times! And others around me have not! But then, the others haven't seen what I have seen or felt what I have felt or been who I have been, they can't become what I have become. I am me. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#beyond-your-comfort-zone #challenges #change #facing-change #flying

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #opportunity-temptation #temptation #inspirational

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are. ↗

— Confucius

#life #philosophy #change

I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#knowledge #science #teaching #change

As you change your point of view, your views bring about a change in you. ↗

— George Alexiou

#empowerment #inspirational #integrity #joy #love

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#inspirational #self-awareness #change

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#inspirational #readers #reading #change

It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television. ↗

— Andy Andrews

#wisdom #change