#or

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#freedom #liberty #freedom

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive. ↗

— Steve Backley

#inspirational #life-changing #mind-body-spirit #motivational #new-thought

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#exclamation #punctuation #change

...we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life--or change the whole world. ↗

— Jack Gantos

#change

She used to look forward to changing in the locker room when other girls stole shocked glances at her emaciated body last spring. Now they would look at her and think she was fat--just as fat as all the other girls, maybe even fatter. Nothing separated her from the parade of thunder thighs trooping up the stairs from the locker room to the gym. ↗

— Steven Levenkron

#eating-disorder #fat #thunder-thighs #change

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor — not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#metaphor #mind #nature #change

Already he [humanity] is physically antique in this robot world he has created. All that sustains him is that small globe of grey matter through which spin his ever-changing conceptions of the universe. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#change

It (Life) is constantly changing, and yet it remains the same. ↗

— Jan Hawkins

#australian-story #dreaming-series #shaman #change

Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth. ↗

— Robin D. Hart

#inspirational #law #law-school #lawyers #legal

Sundance, get over here." "Great - You've named me after a guy who dies in that movie. ↗

— Toni McGee Causey

#movies