Alter Quotes

“A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged by Damnation

“Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was upsetting to think people could do stuff like that — they were not disjointed They were not repetitive in terms of "I've heard this before". It was not just she'd someone trying consciously or unconsciously to get attention. really processed them out and was done with them. She didn't come up with them again [after telling the story once and dealing with it]. Once it was done, it was done. And I think that was probably the biggest factor for me in her believability. I got no sense that she was using these stories to make herself a really interesting person to me so I'd really want to work with her, or something. Or that she was just living in this stuff like it was her life. Once she dealt with it and processed it, it was gone. We just went on to other things. 'Throughout the whole thing, emotionally Cheryl was getting her life together. Parts of her were integrating where she could say,"I have a sense that some particular alter has folded in with some basic alter", and she didn't bring it up again. She didn't say that this alter has reappeared to cause more problems. That just didn't happen. The therapist had learned from training and experience that when real integration occurs, it is permanent and the patient moves on.”
― Cheryl Hersha, Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed to Kill for Their Country

“Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“You can't truly hear
and remain untouched.
You can't truly think
and remain unaltered.”
― Shellen Lubin

“An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made, not the elimination of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the power of an ordinary human being to perform the seemingly impossible in the life of another human being. And how can that experience do anything less than drive me to try and make the world smile.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There’s something about a warm summer night where all the boundaries of the world seem to fall to the softness of moonlight and crickets. And with the astonishing expanse of the entire world having drawn within arm’s reach, I realize that nothing is so far from where I am that it can’t be affected by who I am.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is limited by death to make us hurry, though we can't change the past, atleast we change for good and to never repeat the same mistakes again.”
― Jinnul Jr.

“The best gifts are those that leave something in the heart of the recipient long after the gift has left their hands.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Anna O. had a third state as well, which today would be called a hidden observer, internal self helper, or center. This was an entity described as follows: "A clear-sighted and calm observer up sat, as she put it, in a corner of her brain and looked on at all the mad business" [p. 101].”
― Colin A. Ross, Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality

“Mit Zähnen und Fäusten muss man den Genuss des Vergnügungen des Lebens festhalten, welche uns unsre Jahre, eins nach dem andern, mit starken Klauen wegreißen.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Die Essays Michel de Montaigne: Die Originalkopie des Buches

“You can create absolutely new reality, both in your personal and professional life and with the same people, by altering your perception towards life, and by putting necessary work into it.”
― Roshan Sharma

“If there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m on my feet. Now all I’ve got to do is alter my direction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Die Katzen wussten, das Nathan, den man weder zu den Kindern noch zu den Alten zählen konnte, unbewusst die besten Jahre durchlebte, in denen weder die Entdeckung eines Gefühls noch die Erinnerung daran Macht über uns haben.”
― Zyta Rudzka, Mikwe

“The minute that stands in front of me has plenty of room within it to birth a new start. And if that is so, the next sixty seconds could change everything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not about reinventing myself. Rather, it’s about reinventing my attitude about reinventing myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Despite the fact that life owes us nothing, it gifts us everything. And if such selflessness were the hallmark of our lives, we would handily transform everyone’s life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ich bin vierunddreißig Jahre alt, ich werde schlafen. Nicht, weil ich besonders reif oder besonders stark bin. Sondern weil ich besonders müde bin.”
― Anna Basener, Schund und Sühne

“Truth is transparent. It is powerless and colourless. It speaks about reality but can’t alter the reality. On the other hand, a lie which is spoken beautifully is powerful enough to alter the reality.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“Water reflectivity is altering with the progress of global pollution.”
― Steven Magee

“In an apathetic world, change is not about the fact that we actually changed something. Rather, it’s far more about the fact that we actually decided to change something.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Man ist erst alt, wenn man nichts Neues mehr wagt.”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Im Ereignishorizont: Gedichte

“There’s something vulnerable about the human condition, where people can transmute into something so astonishingly altered that whatever is left is wholly unrecognizable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Das Alter verschwindet, wenn man den Menschen als Ganzes betrachtet, wurde mir klar, doch in seine Einzelteile zerlegt wird die Zeit wieder sichtbar.”
― Joachim Meyerhoff, Hamster im hinteren Stromgebiet

“Ich bin alt", sagte sie. "Jeder wird alt. Aber das ist in Ordnung. Denn man ist es ja eine ganze Zeit lang nicht."
"Genau. Und bis man alt ist, bleibt man eben so lange jung, wie es nur geht.”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Wanderherzen

“The fact that you don’t believe that you have the ability to impact your world has absolutely no bearing on the fact that you’ve always possessed the first and never not done the second.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You cannot believe anything that comes out of Florida!”
― Steven Magee

“You can stare into space or you can change the world for the better.”
― Steven Magee

“The fool believes that pretending can be done with such flair and perceived genius that it can alter the reality of that which it is attempting to avoid in the pretending.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough