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Truth: I realised there is no escaping reality but dreaming changes the perception of what it was to what it can become C’mon now dream on dream big dream slow dream bright Let your dreams flow let them take flight Only your dreams alone can and will always show you the light ↗

— Lebogang Lynx Bopape

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Woman, you got a mouth on you." "It's not 1955 any longer. Women swear as much as men." "I miss women who talk about women things." "You're changing the subject. Keep it up and I'll talk about my period. That's a woman thing. ↗

— Edie Ramer

#humor #snark #women-humor #change

But her greatest assets were her bound feet, called in Chinese "three-inch golden lilies" (san-tsun-gin-lian). This meant she walked "like a tender young willow shoot in a spring breeze," as Chinese connoisseurs of women traditionally put it. The sight of a woman teetering on bound feet was supposed to have an erotic effect on men, partly because her vulnerability induced a feeling of protectiveness in the onlooker. ↗

— Jung Chang

#feet #sad-but-true #change

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day. ↗

— George Alexiou

#change #goals #happiness #humility #inspirational

At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed, they discovered, since the days of Amundsen and Nansen, and the leather remained tough and inedible.) ↗

— Anna Reid

#polar-exploration #siege #starvation #wwii #change

I know love is begun by time, And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. And nothing is at a like goodness still. For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, Dies in his own too-much. That we would do, We should do when we would, for this “would” changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents. And then this “should” is like a spendthrift sigh That hurts by easing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#procrastination #change

I do not seek to change the world… I wish to inspire it, for through inspiration comes the rebirth of faith. ↗

— Emry Kale Owens

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He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld. ↗

— Colum McCann

#dancer #music

Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose. ↗

— Saji Ijiyemi

#fearlessness #inspirational #life-changing #motivational #personal-development

Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life Book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.'"- ↗

— Beth Hoffman

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