#ss

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspirational #kindness #change

Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom. ↗

— Feroz Bham

#change #leaf #life #change

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#leo-tolstoy #literature #russia #change

I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it! ↗

— Garth Nix

#love #change

I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more. ↗

— Dorothy Koomson

#life-lessons #change

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#searching #business

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#defense #forgiveness #love #truth #anger

What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future. ↗

— CW

#change

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#inspirational #science-fiction #inspirational

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference. ↗

— Mike Schmoker

#motivation #success #inspirational