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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#change

Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#change

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#inspirational #proverv #wisdom #change

Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly. He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But" — with an exaggerated change of mood — "I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed!" "I hope she beat you as a child," Onua grumbled. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#mothers #change

Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#fear #hurting #ink-exchange #pain #change

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't. ↗

— Stephen King

#survival #change

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#expression #feelings #humor #inspirational #learning

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #nicholas-sparks #past #change

I wanted life that's comfortable enough for me, my ambitions and love. ↗

— Fernando Lachica

#life #lifestyle #love #ofw #dreams

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ↗

— Alan Watts

#dance #into #join #make #move