#me

The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#dreamer #question #victim #visionary #who-you-are

Firecracker Gale and dandelion Peeta are so different from each other that it's easy to imagine that a girl who would choose Gale is a completely different person than one who would choose Peeta. When people sit around debating who Katniss should choose, maybe what they're really debating actually is her identity - and the romance is just a proxy for that big, hard question about the ever-changing, unaware girl on fire. ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#change

Change happens very slow and very sudden. ↗

— Dorothy Bryant

#feminist #metaphysics #science-fiction #change

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. ↗

— Robert Allen

#enlightenment

The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Everyday it's a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#poetry #shatter-me #change

Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the kind of things remembered forever after it didn't have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or marriage or birth of a child. It more often was the small things. The sheer joy of summer sunlight on a fragrant flower. The giggle of a toddler. The brush of a lover's fingertips. And the person marks the moment with the flashing insight thinking... This is special. I should remember this ↗

— Sandra Hill

#living #living-life-to-the-fullest #love #memories #romance

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#tohr #tohrment #ego

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior. ↗

— Boyd K. Packer

#change #self-improvement #change

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#disappointment #disappointment

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#meaning #meaninglessness #compassion