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We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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 of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
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 not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
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
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
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
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
If a child lives with criticism,
he learns to condemn.
...
If a child lives with fear,
he learns to be apprehensive.
...
If a child lives with encouragement,
he learns to be confident.
...
If a child lives with acceptance,
he learns to love.
- Dorothy Law Nolte
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
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
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)
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
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
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
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
The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
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
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
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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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