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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
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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 
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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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
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
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
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
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 inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
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
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
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
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
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
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
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
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
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)
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
I welcome change. I drive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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