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If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Related topics: Inspirational Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology
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 
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
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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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)
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
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
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
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
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
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
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
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
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
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
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
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
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 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)
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
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
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
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
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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