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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. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#wuthering-heights #change

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door ↗

— Milton Berle

#opportunity #self-determination #wisdom #change

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They depen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#reading #writing #change

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#control #greatness #power #words #change

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version. ↗

— Carolyn See

#women #writing #change

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ↗

— Rumi

#cleverness #self #wisdom #world #change

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.
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— Jarod Kintz

#experiment #experimentation #fear #food #innovation

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ↗

— Libba Bray

#change

...as he finally sheds his body's suit, ------ finds his gut and throat again and newly whole, clean and unimpeded, free, catapulted home over fans and the Convexity's glass palisades at desperate speeds, soaring north, sounding a bell-clear and nearly maternal alarmed call-to-arms in all the world's well-known tongues. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#wow #death

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting. ↗

— T. H. White

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #doing #else