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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
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Wisdom Attitude Acceptance
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
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
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 you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
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
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
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
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
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
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
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Your own body is a manifestation of God,
and if you honor your body everything will change for you
- don Miguel Ruiz
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
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
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
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
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
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)
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
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 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
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
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
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
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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