#pa

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#fond #past #present #sealed #tibby

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#capacity #change #decision #every #excuse

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo. ↗

— Wade Davis

#culture #evolve #future #past #survival

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#past #prayer #truth #change

So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all. ↗

— John Knowles

#john-knowles #change

Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It’s pure pain and pure surrender when your soul cries without any fight from your body and that’s how I knew she was deeply affected. ↗

— Renee Carlino

#pain #soul #tears #change

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#past #change

As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change. ↗

— Louise Glück

#men-and-women #parents #relationships #change

Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#change

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over. ↗

— John Medina

#business