#wi

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#flux #reflux #truth #wisdom #change

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will. ↗

— Tarsem Singh

#anything #benevolent #came #definitely #enough

The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning. ↗

— Vijay Singh

#card #keeping #need #play #talk

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#everywhere #least #nobody #roughness #some

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am? ↗

— Paul McCartney

#life #wisdom #change

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#fate #jeanette-winterson #sexing-the-cherry #change

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change. ↗

— Leon C. Megginson

#change #charles-darwin #darwin #intelligence #misattributed

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#jodi-picoult #pg- #change

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each? ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#cause-and-effect #chain-of-events #chance #change #choice

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#hard-work #knowledge-wisdom #mind #power #writing