#si

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#change #destiny #enable #further #great

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#change

There were no windows in the Stockholders' Records Section of the Treasurer's Department of the American Forge and Foundry Company. But the soft, sweet music from the loudspeaker on the green wall by the clock, music that increased the section's productivity by 3 percent, kept pace with the seasons, and provided windows of a sort for the staff. --"Bomar ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#music #music

The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works. ↗

— Erica Goros

#be-sane #be-silly #coping-strategies #joy #music

You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#aspen #choice #chosing #relationship #change

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. ↗

— Gregory Boyle

#change

But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer. ↗

— Sinbad

#apple #boards #bought #box #built

I just don't trust people who have bodies that change with their moods. Well then you'll never trust the opposite sex again. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#josie #change

Music is the language spoken by angels. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#music

It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#insight #change