#nat

People grow, but they don't change. ↗

— Elizabeth Bard

#change

Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever. ↗

— Joe Schreiber

#dean-winchester #hell #sam-winchester #suffering #supernatural

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you. ↗

— Gordon Korman

#laminating #teachers #teaching #education

Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for. ↗

— Betty Smith

#imagination #inspirational #life #age

Oh God,” Jenna said, “will you shut up and kiss me before I change my mind? ↗

— Richard Finney

#suspense #thriller #change

The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#change #determination #power #will #change

There are two possibilities. People change or maybe they do not change, they are just clearer who they really are. ↗

— Cynthia Rusli

#hurt #life #change

You believe in Destiny, don't you?" "Yes," said Leah quietly. "Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine ↗

— Jacquelyn Frank

#predestination #predetermination #change

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #science #business

Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary background, much as in a 'realistic' tale. Then a gradual - or it may be sometimes a shockingly abrupt - change becomes apparent, and the reader begins to realize that what is being described is alien to the world he is accustomed to, that something strange has crept or leapt into it. This strangeness changes the world permanently and fundamentally. ↗

— Franz Rottensteiner

#fantastique #fantasy #horror #supernatural #change