#hi

Feelings come and go, just as seasons and reasons change, and yet, If the only thing you can claim intimate awareness with is your breathing, then you have all you need. ↗

— Ruby S. Bernardo

#change

The laws you see today are a direct consequence of economic illiteracy in the general population. If every voter learned economics tonight, the laws would change tomorrow. ↗

— Ben Mathew

#change

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. ↗

— John Wilmot

#children #fatherhood #marriage #parenting #theory

The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance is found in people who, if confronted with certain truths realize that they have to accept them and thereby acknowledge evil, and that scares them. Opening up and letting the truth in might knock them off their perceived center. It is too hard, period." (VOTF - Voice of the Faithful - a Catholic group that wants to change the Church, keep the faith.) ↗

— Charles L. Bailey Jr.

#catholic #church #confronted #disbelief #evil

SOMETIMES, THINGS DIDN’T NEED TO BE BIGGER, THEY ONLY NEED TO BECOME BETTER. ↗

— Oliver Kemper

#change #life #situation #things #change

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others? ↗

— Shri Radhe Maa

#meditation #quotes-and-saying #quotes-of-life #radhe-guru-maa #radhe-maa

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre ↗

— George Orwell

#fiction-novel #philosophical #truth #change

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#chile #government #power #change

You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same. ↗

— Kyo Maclear

#friendship #hugs #inspirational #life #mister-flux

Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#leadership #perseverance #change