#or

It's not about trying to change the world, it's about trying not to be changed by it. ↗

— Lights Poxlietner

#lights-bokan #lights-poxleitner #world #change

Things changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more moves, a hard person who doesn't give a fuck, a boredom so monumental it humbles, arrangements so fleeting made by people you don't even know that it requires you to lose any sense of reality you might have once acquired, expectations so unreasonable you become superstitious about ever matching them. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#bryan #easton #ellis #japan #the-informers

How can I explain to her that I just can't come home? It's too soon, it's too late; I do want to be with Helen every second of the day but at the same time I don't want to be with her at all. I want to have back what I felt at the beginning. I could no more leave her then than leave my arms or legs. How do you find the beginning, though? There are no roads or signs. You start to doubt it even exists. The hardest thing isn't deciding that I want to go back to when Helen and Gracie and I were us. The most difficult thing is finding the map to get there. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#divorce #love #change

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dejan-stojanovic #force #imagination #literature

Whenever there is a break up, it's usually not the fault of just one party. Both are usually at fault ↗

— Louis N. Jones

#life-lessons #separation #change

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her. ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#forna #kai #love #memory #change

There are people who desperately want to change the world. I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time. Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history. ↗

— Toba Beta

#history #life #perception #truth #world

Smartass Disciple: Master, that guy’s teaching is somehow annoying me. Master of Stupidity: Only as long as you stay tuned for pissed-off channel. ↗

— Toba Beta

#change-the-channel #humor #life #stay-tuned-for #change

Life keeps changing without giving a damn about our personal feelings. ↗

— Kate Papas

#humor #marriage #relationships #change

Principle of Change #1: Discontent + Passion Drive Change ↗

— Brett Blumenthal

#brett-blumenthal #motivation #personal-transformation #self-help #success