The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live in trapped loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out ahead of us. We see the same things each day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation of the last, every moment smoothly following the the gentle curves of societal norms. we act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.
And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolly myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up.
This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can: Fuck. That. Shit.
—Randall Munroe
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.
—Sydney Smith
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
—E. B. White
We change at least one person’s life just by being born.
—Samantha Sotto in Before Ever After
Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love
They tell you you’ll forget how it used to be. You’ll get used to it, that it’s better to move on. They don’t realize you can’t. You’re not the same person anymore.
—Amanda Sun in Ink
Women hope men will change after marriage, but they don't; men hope women won't change, but they do.
—Bettina Arndt
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
—Russell Baker
If you’re gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.
—Kimberly Willis Holt in My Louisiana Sky
If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.
—Elizabeth Janeway
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
—Robert M. Pirsig
Is it altogether a Utopian dream that once in history a ruling class might be willing to make the great surrender and permit social change to come about without hatred, turmoil, and waste of human life?
—Upton Sinclair
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
—Norman Vincent Peale
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
—Ralph Marston
You never know when love will come along and change everything.
—K. Langston in Because You’re Mine