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What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything. ↗

— Donna Quesada

#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #wisdom-quote #zen #change

He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone. ↗

— David Sedaris

#simile #vegan #simile

Burying his face in Emma's neck, Noah's cries quieted as Emma hummed to him. Their food arrived then. "Wanna come to Daddy, Little Man, so Mama can eat? ↗

— Katie Ashley

#food

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I’m told, into God.” - Zorba. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#food #god #humour #work #zorba

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mage #magic #wizard #change

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#civilization #growth #human-condition #humanity #rebellion

Yes." His gaze grew distant. "If I'd have the chance, if my position permitted, I would have pleaded with her not to accept the mission because of the danger, and because I couldn't bear the thought of..." "Of losing her? ↗

— Kristen Britain

#karigan #king-zachary #love #mapstone #love

Never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain. ↗

— Seth Grahame-Smith

#love

Once, [Rabbi Chanoch] Teller was traveling with 16 of his [18] offspring ... while changing planes in Frankfurt, Teller noticed a German woman gaping. 'Are all of these your children?' the woman asked. 'From one wife?' 'Yes, God has blessed me with all these children,' the rabbi replied. 'Haven't you heard about the population problem?'the woman sniffed. 'How many more children do you want to have?' Rabbi Teller paused and looked the woman in the eye: 'About 6 million,' he said. ↗

— Lynn Vincent

#germany #inspirational #jews #life #nazis

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#am #creation #else #everyone #everything