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“Don't sit around and wait for the perfect opportunity to come along —find something and make it an opportunity.”

Book:Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

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Cecile Richards

Cecile Richards is an influential activist, born in 1958. She is known for her leadership in the areas of women's rights, health, and reproductive rights. more

“She had the feeling that she would be different from now on, that she could never go back and be the same person she had been. So who am I now? Somebody fierce, I think. Somebody who’d enjoy running through the darkness, underneath stars bright as miniature suns, and maybe even hunt deer. Somebody who can laugh and death”

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Book:Daughters of Darkness

Source: Daughters of Darkness

“For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.”

Change

Book:The Love That Split the World

Source: The Love That Split the World

“...some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen.”

Life Change

Book:The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“I am pointing to you that under these conditions--mental strain, physical malaise--it is highly probable that dislikes that were before merely mild and disagreements that were trivial might suddenly assume a more serious note. The result of pretending to be a more amiable, a more forgiving, a more high-minded person than one really is, has sooner or later the effect of causing one to behave as a more disagreeable, a more ruthless and an altogether more unpleasant person than is actually the case! If you dam the stream of natural behavior, mon ami, sooner or later the dam bursts and cataclysm occurs.”

Change Hindrance Holding Back

Book:Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Source: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

“Resistance isn’t enough. If we want change, we have to get out the vote.”

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Author:DaShanne Stokes

“No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.”

“Identifying who began something like this is like picking out the stone that began an avalanche. It began somewhere, true enough [...] but once it well and truly begins, we are all just stones moving together. One stone rolling down a mountain changes nothing unless others move with it.”

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Book:Terra Nova

Source: Terra Nova

“The only way to do better, to have better, is to lose pieces of what was. It's inevitable that you can't bring everything with you, like carrying water in your cupped hands from one river to another. There are too many cracks, and if you're so eager to move, you'll just have to get used to new water.”

Change Self Improvement

Book:One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Source: One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.”

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Author:Gary Rohrmayer

“It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.”

Change Annoying People

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