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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale 
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Respond to emergencies in a casual manner.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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)
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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 become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
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
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
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 dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- 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
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
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
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- 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
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
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
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
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
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
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
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
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
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