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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

Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than they've worked at anything in their lives before. If it's a good marriage, it changes, it evolves, but it does on getting better. I've seen it with my own mother and father. But a bad marriage can dissolve in a welter of resentment and acrimony. I've seen that, too, in my own miserable and disastrous attempt at making another person happy. And it's never one person's fault. It's the sum total of a thousand little irritations, disagreements, idiotic details that in a sound alliance would simply be disregarded, or forgotten in the healing act of making love. Divorce isn't a cure, it's a surgical operation, even if there are no children to consider. ↗

— Rosamunde Pilcher

#love #marriage #sex #change

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves Orcs. ↗

— Raj Patel

#humor #lord-of-the-rings #change

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#social-justice #change

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#been #city #extent #ghetto #go

The moment I heard her name I fell in love. Of course I fell in love with the wrong name, so I made her legally change her name to match that of my love interest. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #mistaken-identity #change

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape. ↗

— Sheri Reynolds

#death #fiction #physics #rural-life #change

For you she learned to wear a short black slip and red lipstick, how to order a glass of red wine and finish it. She learned to reach out as if to touch your arm and then not touch it, changing the subject. Didn't you think, she'd begin, or Weren't you sorry. . . . To call your best friends by their schoolboy names and give them kisses good-bye, to look away when they say Your wife! So your confidence grows. She doesn't ask what you want because she knows. Isn't that what you think? When actually she was only waiting to be told Take off your dress--- to be stunned, and then do this, never rehearsed, but perfectly obvious: in one motion up, over, and gone, the X of her arms crossing and uncrossing, her face flashing away from you in the fabric so that you couldn't say if she was appearing or disappearing. ↗

— Deborah Garrison

#relationships #women #change

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be, are full of trees and changing leaves ↗

— Woolf Virginia

#change

It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #change