#kin

I sat at a table in my shadowy kitchen, staring down a bottle of Boone's Farm Hard Lemonade, when a magic fluctuation hit. My wards shivered and died, leaving my home stripped of its defenses. The TV flared into life, unnaturally loud in the empty house. I raised my eyebrow at the bottle and bet it that another urgent bulletin was on. The bottle lost. "Urgent bulletin!" Margaret Chang announced. "The Attorney General advises all citizens that any attempt at summoning or other activities resulting in the appearance of a supernaturally powerful being can be hazardous to yourself and to other citizens." "No shit," I told the bottle. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#change

Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#change

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspirational #kindness #change

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart. ↗

— David Norton

#inspirational #king-james-version #protestantism #religion #inspirational

If you always do what you've done before, you will always get what you had, not more... ↗

— Shelley K. Wall

#inspirational

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#pioneers #positive-thinking #positivity #change

The seas were found agitated, the few humans that remained, aimlessly. The reservoirs, without water. The animals, exhausted, the sky, black as the darkest coal. ↗

— Daniel Díez Ginestar

#diez #ginestar #global #inspirational #movie

You can't see change until you change the way you see. ↗

— Raimy Diaz

#change-your-mind #making-progress #self-improvement #self-realization #change

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#carlyle #change #christian #comparison #direction

I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably. ↗

— Shaun White

#i #i can #probably #skate #stairs