“The alternative to change is irrelevance”
Source: The Creative Team: Notes on design and operation of creative organizations
“There is a temptation for helpers to become wisdom dispensers, and sharing your acumen can be part of your role, but understanding cannot be pushed in. That door opens from the Inside.”
Source: Motivation Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
“We had accomplished what we could on the small stage of the university; whatever marks we left behind were like "the corpses of angels" in Forché's poem, fleeting and ephemeral impressions on the snowy field of history. We thought we had made a difference, or could. We believed we knew where we were going. Some of us were even right.”
Source: Hearts in Suspension
“Let yourself be changed by love.”
Source: 365 Days of Compassion
“Transformation that is neither fiercely turbulent nor inordinately frightening is not transformation.”
“Take care of your brother, Lydia, and take care of yourself; be at all times guarded. And never forget that this country despises above all else this thing they call people of color, sees them not as people at all but as harbingers of a future it can’t control. I remember liking that moniker: of color. What a thing to be in a country so black and white.”
Source: A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
“The world men dream of," replied Ghazali, "is the world they try to make.”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“And by this time the Chinese box was peeling crazily, and as each layer fell away a new voice told a new tale, none of the tales finished because the box inevitably found a new story inside each unfinished one, until it seemed that digression was the true principle of the universe, that the only real subject was the way the subject kept changing, and how could anyone live in a crazy situation in which nothing remained the same for five minutes and no narrative was ever driven through to its conclusion, there could be no meaning in such an environment, only absurdity, the unmeaningness that was the only sort of meaning anyone could hold on to.”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“We are aware that conflict was for a long time the defining narrative of our species, but we have shown that the narrative can be changed. The differences between us, of race, place, tongue, and custom, these differences no longer divide us. They interest and engage us. We are one.”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“Raging against it, or despairing, would not change anything. The past does not imprison us. We may offer ourselves up as its captives, but equally, we can choose to open the cell door and walk free. Even if it's locked, the key is nearby, because we keep it with us always. It's just a matter of finding the right pocket.”
Source: The Land of Lost Things