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“Do you always try to upset the world as much as possible?" Clare asked. He gave her a surprised look. "Of course. Otherwise how does anything change?”

Book:The Dead Isle

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“Any environment, any single life is in a continuous state of change. This is just more obvious when you pay attention to earthworms. Their work may seem unspectacular at first. They don't chirp or sing, they don't gallop or soar, they don't hunt or make tools or write books. But they do something just as powerful: they consume, they transform, they change the earth.”

Change Earthworms

Book:The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

Source: The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

“Personalities change when you least expect them”

Change Expected Personalities Least

Author:g m

“Opinions can never cease to exist and empower judgments. Thinking of other's doesn't stop or change you either.”

Change Opinions Empower Opinions Of Others Judgements

Book:Just the Way I Feel

Source: Just the Way I Feel

“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”

Love Haunting Restlessness Heathcliff Catherine Malediction

Book:Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever changing, different people at different times and under different circumstances and influences. And always growing, always creating themselves anew. How impossible it was to know another human being. How impossible to know even oneself.”

Different Change Grow

Book:Slightly Tempted

Source: Slightly Tempted

“HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better. ... LEWIS: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.”

Change Prayer

Book:Shadowlands: A Play

Source: Shadowlands: A Play

“It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,”

Change History Narration Gertrude Stein Four Lectures

Book:Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein

Source: Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein

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