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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

The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#bateman #patrick #psycho #seals #zoo

¿Qué me valen la gracia y la belleza, y amar como jamás amó ninguna, si la pasión que el alma me devora, la desconoce aquel que me enamora? ↗

— José de Espronceda

#amor #belleza #españa #spanish #spanish

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#change #compassion #conscience #conviction #guilt

There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host. ↗

— Mira Grant

#virus #zombie #zombies #biology

El camino más fácil no es siempre el mejor. ↗

— T. Lobsang Rampa

#spanish #vida #spanish

Your true home is in the here and the now. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#presence #zen

The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#freedom #happiness #realizations #unhappiness #change

A brick could used to translate and transform long cuneiform texts into shorter tweets. Sure, just take the brick and smash the clay tablets, and each broken fragment should be roughly 140 characters. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

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

— Donna Quesada

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