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Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- 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
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
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
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
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
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
Life's a bitch... and then you change your attitude.
- Jennifer Unlimited
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
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
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- 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
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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 always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
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 is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
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
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- 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
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
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Constant development is the law of life,
and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas
in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
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.
- Carl Jung
It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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