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What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow 
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
The ability to be in the present moment
is a major component of mental wellness.
- Abraham Maslow
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If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill
Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Thomas Jefferson
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation,
which are as necessary as reading.
I will rather say more necessary
because health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show
by what road it will pass to destruction,
to wit: by consolidation of power first,
and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
War may sometimes be a necessary evil.
But no matter how necessary,
it is always an evil, never a good.
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
Having seen the devastation of war first hand,
Eisenhower came both to despise war
and to see that "war settles nothing."
On the other hand, Ike was certainly no peacenik.
He understood that, in an emergency,
action must be met with reaction.
When truly necessary, violence met with violence -
but never hate responded to with hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Faith is the great affirmative power that
says "yes" to the infinite goodness of life -
regardless of appearances. We all have within us
the potential for mountain-moving faith,
but we must take the steps necessary to activate it.
- Mary Omwake
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Life's a bitch... and then you change your attitude.
- Jennifer Unlimited
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
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
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