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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
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi 
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
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)
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
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
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
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
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
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
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
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- 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 must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
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
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
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
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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 greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
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
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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