Thoughts by James Allen

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Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen

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 of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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)

You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- 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

I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

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

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 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

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

Change comes from within.
- Anonymous

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

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

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

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

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

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 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)

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho

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

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

Your own body is a manifestation of God,
and if you honor your body everything will change for you
- don Miguel Ruiz

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle

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

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb

When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison

I welcome change. I drive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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