If we don't change, we don't grow. by Gail Sheehy

If we don't change, we don't grow.
by Gail Sheehy

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison

You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins

When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- 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

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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If we don't change, we don't grow.by Gail Sheehy

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If we don't change, we don't grow.
by Gail Sheehy