#on

I will change you like a remix, then I'll raise you like a Phoenix ↗

— Fall Out Boy

#change

Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake." "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#inspriational #vampires #change

I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#politics #religion #writing #change

No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#change

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. ↗

— James Baldwin

#philosophical #inspirational

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#life-and-living #inspirational

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#chaos #civilization #desires #necessity #order

Do not go changing in your nature just to satisfy any creature. ↗

— Rawan M. ElBanna

#change

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#pain #transformation #tribulations #change

I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change. ↗

— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#stepfamily #stepmother #change