#bret

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#battle #be patient #blessed #brethren #continue

And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years. ↗

— Robin Yount

#brett #friends #george #good #good friends

Things changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more moves, a hard person who doesn't give a fuck, a boredom so monumental it humbles, arrangements so fleeting made by people you don't even know that it requires you to lose any sense of reality you might have once acquired, expectations so unreasonable you become superstitious about ever matching them. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#bryan #easton #ellis #japan #the-informers

Principle of Change #1: Discontent + Passion Drive Change ↗

— Brett Blumenthal

#brett-blumenthal #motivation #personal-transformation #self-help #success

Much better," I said calmly. "Much better, I thank you, Dr. John." For, reader, this tall young man - this darling son - this host of mine - this Graham Bretton, was Dr. John: he, and no other; and, what is more, I ascertained this identity scarcely with surprise. What is more, when I heard Graham's step on the stairs, I knew what manner of figure would enter, and for whose aspect to prepare my eyes. The discovery was not of to-day, its dawn had penetrated my perceptions long since. Of course I remembered young Bretton well; and though ten years (from sixteen to twenty-six) may greatly change the boy as they mature him to the man, yet they could bring no such utter difference as would suffice wholly to blind my eyes, or baffle my memory. Dr. John Graham Bretton retained still an affinity to the youth of sixteen. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#revelation #villette #change

Principle of Change #2: Self-awareness is the foundation for change. ↗

— Brett Blumenthal

#brett-blumenthal #motivation #personal-transformation #self-help #success

Principle of Change #3: Vision gives change meaningful direction. ↗

— Brett Blumenthal

#brett-blumenthal #motivation #personal-transformation #self-help #success

Principle of Change #4: Planning for change is planning to succeed. ↗

— Brett Blumenthal

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Principle of Change #5: Without proper action, change cannot occur. ↗

— Brett Blumenthal

#brett-blumenthal #motivation #personal-transformation #self-help #success

Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of creation. To abuse them was immediately to set oneself adrift from true being. Words need to be coaxed to reveal a little of their true nature, so as to close the breach that exists between the writer and the universe. The world is not something alien against which man is in conflict. Rather man and cosmos exist in reciprocal motion. We are not cast adrift in an alien or meaningless environment. The universe is intimate with us and, as Breton insisted, it is a cryptogram to be deciphered. ↗

— Michael Richardson

#language #poetry #surrealism #words #world