#ss

I didn't think vampires had nervous twitches." His hand went up, almost touched it. He smiled, flashing fangs. "Some things don't change ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton from Anita Blake to Willie

#vampire #wistfulness #change

There were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. [...] People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#change

Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#business

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#always #assistance #been #concept #driven

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#true #useless #change

that was bad; i shouldn't have done that to prevent you from entering a catatonic state i am going to maintain a calm facial expression with crinkly eyes and an overall friendly demeanor i believe in a human being that is not upset i believe if you are working i should not be insane or upset--why am i ever insane or upset and not working? i vacuumed the entire house this morning i cleaned the kitchen and the computer room and i made you a meat helmet with computer paper the opportunity for change exists in each moment, all moments are alone and separate from other moments, and there are a limited number of moments and the idea of change is a delusion of positive or negative thinking your hands are covering your face and your body moves like a statue when i try to manipulate an appendage if i could just get you to cry tears of joy one more time ↗

— Tao Lin

#impermanence #indifferent-universe #meat-helmet #productivity #sadness

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past. ↗

— J.L. Carr

#business

Abuse changes who we are, it changes who we become, It changes how we move in the world – And so does kindness ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#changes #kindness #world #change

Oh, I’m burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free . . . and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? Why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills. Open the window again wide: fasten it open! ↗

— Emily Brontë

#outdoors #wilderness #change

Nothing in this world is wrong, Unless, YOU consider it Wrong! ↗

— Dhruv Gandhi

#inspirational #lessons-for-man #life-changing #life-lessons #philosophy