#ship

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

It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changed. That summer was mine. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#happiness #inspirational #love #change

How odd; wedded for life, because one of us had died. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#relationships #death

My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't love her anymore and she doesn't love me. What can i do?" "The feeling isn't there anymore?" I asked. "That's right," he reaffirmed. "And we have three children we're really concerned about. What do you suggest?" "love her," I replied. "I told you, the feeling just isn't there anymore." "Love her." "You don't understand. the feeling of love just isn't there." "Then love her. If the feeling isn't there, that's a good reason to love her." "But how do you love when you don't love?" "My friend , love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that? ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#proactive #relationships #change

I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#friendships #social-anxiety #change

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. ↗

— Socrates

#enlightenment #learning #lifelong-learning #mentorship #education

Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about ↗

— Wogu Donald

#entrepreneurship #inspirational #relationships #education

We change people through conversation, not through censorship. ↗

— Jay-Z

#change

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#change #goodbye #love #maxon #relationship

If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy? ↗

— Al Munoz

#happiness #inspirational #life #philosophy #truth