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We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You are constantly undergoing changes in your life. Don't fight against change -- instead, guide life changes in a direction that benefits you.
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
- Anonymous
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- John Wooden
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-
Maya Angelou
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
- Gene Wolfe
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Change is the essential process of all existence.
-
Spock (character in the TV series Star Trek)
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude.
- Charles Swindoll
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
- Peter F. Drucker
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
-
Joseph Campbell
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
To change who you are, change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived in the mists - little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing, and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be resolute in your goals, but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
While it is only human to fear change and to fear the unknown, take a deep breath and welcome change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Welcome change.
Be grateful for the blessings and accept the rest as important lessons.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The nature of life is constant change.
The world is not the same today as it was yesterday, and it will be different still tomorrow.
We can be victims of that change, or we can proactively drive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes change is about action, and sometimes change is about one's relationship with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past. You can't undo any actions you took or failed to take. Your only choice today is either to waste energy and emotion on regrets and resentments, or to treat your own past like a history book - an interesting, but emotionally neutral, recitation of ancient times.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Welcome the Unexpected.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises - often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways.
Sometimes newness just knocks on your door; welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness lies in accepting everyone in our lives EXACTLY as they are.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.
This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Affirmation: I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
- John Dos Passos
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore,
you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-
Anais Nin
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
- William James
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
-
Marie Curie
The world is perfect.
As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes.
A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
Change what you believe and your world changes.
- Francesco Garri Garripoli
Life change comes about in two complementary ways - the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight, and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors, which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped
with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Too many people grow up.
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.
- Walt Disney
If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree,
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!
-
J.M. Barrie [Peter Pan]
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
-
John Lennon
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Yoda (Star Wars movie)
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
- Hermann Hesse
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event,
then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
- William James
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Live and let live.
- Anonymous
When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
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