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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Change Progress
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A young man who does not have what
it takes to perform military service
is not likely to have what
it takes to make a living.
Today's military rejects include
tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
- John F. Kennedy
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We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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)
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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 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 inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- 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
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
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
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
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
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 your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
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
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
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
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
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
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
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
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
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
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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 cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
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
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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