#ra

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #vulnerability #change

Some people try to change the world one life at a time. Others try to change the world one death at a time. And I try to change the world one bucket full of dirt at a time. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#death #funny #hope #humor #life

There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free! ↗

— Dan Millman

#inspirational #philosophy #self-help #change

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change. ↗

— Dan Brown

#serenity-prayer #strength #change

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#time #change

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. ↗

— James Gordon

#inspirational #motivation #change

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some. ↗

— David Mitchell

#journey #travel #change

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#hope #inspiration #inspirational #life #past

A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#bravery #fear #change