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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 one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Wisdom Attitude Acceptance
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
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
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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
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 of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
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
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
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
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
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
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
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
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 most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
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
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
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
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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