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But the weight of her anguish over Gregory – this one missing airman, this unreliable, perhaps unworthy man – filled her whole upper half, diaphragm, lungs, ribs, shoulders, with such crushing gravity that the sighs with which she was obliged to displace it shook her entire body. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#love

Her white arms became my entire horizon ("The Rooster And The Pearl") ↗

— Max Jacob

#love #love

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#malcontents #satisfaction #change

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins ↗

— Margaret Cousins

#voicing-it #change

Speak politely to an enraged dragon. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#dragons #manners #political

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#afraid #all things #cannot #change #dying

Have you realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#dreams #fulfilling-purpose #inspiration #risk-it-be-different #success-self-improvement

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees - my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#change

If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance? ↗

— Simon Pegg

#fate #friendships #love #memoir #change

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#ethics #law #shop #vegan #change