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When we hit our lowest point we are opened to the greatest change. ↗

— Aang

#inspirational-life #change

Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, I think everybody can agree that politicians are crooks. But I don’t think politicians are thieves, because you can’t steal what you’ve been given. Once we stop giving in, they’ll stop taking.
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— Jarod Kintz

#politicians #politics #republicans #change

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#change

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #mediation #change

Go away princess. Leave your outlaw alone. You won't change him... go away, Anna, far away, and don't ever come back. The fairy tale doesn't have a happy ending. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#abel-tannatek #anna-leemann #change

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#complication #poverty-alleviation #simplicity #social-change #change

A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#change

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#freedom #self-expression #change

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#love

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#change