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This world is so full of wars and hostilities. All parties seek for allies to defeat enemies. I support peace effort towards mastermind which has caused men hostile to each other. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #mastermind #peace #truth #war

It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.’ Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside. ↗

— Cole Alpaugh

#circus #death #literary-fiction #love #death

Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes. ↗

— Steven Wright

#humor

What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#stillness #transformation #change

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. ↗

— David Mitchell

#happiness #change

Today is a new day. Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#appreciation #change #life #motivational #seize-the-day

Just because you make a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake. ↗

— Georgette Mosbacher

#inspirational

Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do." He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. "It's never going to change. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#in-death #love #roarke #romance #change

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#life #wisdom #change

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself ↗

— Alexander Sutherland Neill

#philosophy #unschooling #education