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What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Self Perspective
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- 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 your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ability to be in the present moment
is a major component of mental wellness.
- Abraham Maslow
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
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
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
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
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
It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
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
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- 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
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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.
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
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)
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
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
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
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
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
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
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
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
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