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“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympa...”
“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.”
“Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.”
“We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselv...”
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the f”
“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.”
“Every hundred feet the world changes”
“But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, ...”
“Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.”
“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.”
“Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.”
“So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense ...”
“Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherev...”
“We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.”
“by the time you open your eyes, the world might have already changed.”
“Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”
“It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules....”
“When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic qual...”
“Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...”
“It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind ...”
