#p

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#brutal #gestures #making #men #precise

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#justice #outlast #passion #will

And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#just-one-day #change

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change. ↗

— Henry Cloud

#parenting #change

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#imagination

Like a comet pulled from orbit, As it passes a sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, Halfway through the wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better? But because I knew you, I have been changed for good It well may be, That we will never meet again, In this lifetime. So let me say before we part, So much of me, Is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me, Like a handprint on my heart. And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have re-written mine, By being my friend... Like a ship blown from its mooring, By a wind off the sea. Like a seed dropped by a skybird, In a distant wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better? But because I knew you, Because I knew you, I have been changed for good. ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

#friendship #goodbye #musicals #songs #wicked

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#library #lies #people #reading #words

I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try. ↗

— Gerard Way

#mcr #my-chemical-romance #saving-the-world #spin #change

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #libraries #technophobes #change

Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#change