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Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Regret is an appalling waste of time.
- Katherine Mansfield
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Make it a rule of life never to regret
and never to look back.
- Katherine Mansfield
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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
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
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
Life's a bitch... and then you change your attitude.
- Jennifer Unlimited
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
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
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
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
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
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
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
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
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)
Change of any sort requires courage.
- 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
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
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
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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