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Okay, now put yourself back in that body. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you’d say something. “You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. “The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.” -Susan Sontag, At The Same Time: Essays and SpeechesĢ6. “The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.” -Brené Brown, Daring GreatlyĢ5. We must accept this.” -David Levithan, The Lover’s DictionaryĢ4. The temperature of the shower changes.Īccept this. Print of JRR Tolkien quote: “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” -Anaïs Nin The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another unevenly. “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. Since you’re going around them or making them irrelevant, there is nothing for them to resist.” -Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is The Wayġ6. Under this kind of force, obstacles break apart. “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surrounding.” -Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Teaġ5. “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” -Mary Shelley, Frankensteinġ4. “You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” -Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Bookġ3. Something not everyone knows how to love.” -Warsan Shireġ2. Someone should have already told you that Him travelling away from you in his dreams If you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.” - James Baldwin quote print. You’ll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. That’s the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.Īnd you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn’t get in, and walk through it, step by step. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. By signing up you agree to our terms of useĢ. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. All are by authors from works of fiction and nonfiction (or from their personal journals, memoirs, or other similar works). Whether you use these inspiring quotes about change in your bullet journal, on your vision board, or as a daily mantra to yourself, they’re sure to help you find that mindset for whatever it is you’re seeking.įind below a wealth of quotes about change that highlight how many different ways change can look, feel, and manifest. Whatever the case, one place to begin to get in the mindset is to explore inspiring quotes about change. Perhaps the new year is when you’ll set a lofty reading goal or you’ll reevaluate your career ambitions somewhere in the second quarter. While the end of the year often brings about the desire to improve something in one’s life come the new year, the reality is the desire for change can happen any time. Follow her on Instagram All posts by Kelly Jensen Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED.
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