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"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."

Marcel Proust
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"The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do."

Andy Warhol

"‎We shed our skin. Biologically we are brand new people. We look the same, at least, we think we do. The change isn’t visible, at least in most of us. But we’re all changed. Completely. Forever."

Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy (via quote-book)

"If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain."

Maya Angelou
So step up and change it. 

So step up and change it. 

"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. 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. There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That’s the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

An you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You’ll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."

Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore 

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"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."

Libba Bray 

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"You write in order to change the world … if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."

James Baldwin

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"It may have just been a moment to you, but it changed every single one that followed for me."

I Wrote This For You: The Fragile Arc 

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"The only thing constant in life is change."

François de La Rochefoucauld 

(Source: quote-book)

"You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you’re not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn’t a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now."

Anais Nin

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"If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it."

Mary Engelbreit

(Source: quote-book)

"People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world, but because they refuse to be changed by the world."

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