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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘change’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“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
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“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” -Bill Gates
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“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.” -Doug Larson
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“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” -Aldous Huxley
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“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
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“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” -Abraham Maslow
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“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.” -Billy Graham
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“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” -Keri Russell
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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” -Jack Layton
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“Try to realize it’s all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you’re only very small and life flows on within you and without you.” -George Harrison
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“I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live.” -Godfrey Reggio
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“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the…
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“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.” -John Wooden
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“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.” -William S. Burroughs
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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” -Ernst Fischer
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“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” -Niels Bohr
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“I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.” -Abdul Kalam
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“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We’ve got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We’re going to change that in November.” -Mitt Romney
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“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.” -Alexander Hamilton
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“Change yourself and your work will seem different.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.” -Bob Dylan
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“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.” -William James
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“If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.” -Clint Eastwood
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“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” -John Milton
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“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.” -Anna Quindlen
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“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.” -M. Scott Peck
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“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.” -Walt Disney
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“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.” -Sai Baba
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“Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” -Steve Jobs
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“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” -Robert Anthony
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“Change is the end result of all true learning.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?” -Carl Rogers
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“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” -Thomas Hardy
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“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.” -Albert Camus
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“Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” -Victor Hugo
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“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.” -Aleister Crowley
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“I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?” -Yogi Berra
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“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.” -Plato
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“What I learned in jail is that I can’t change. I can’t live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.” -Tupac Shakur
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“The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.” -Tony Robbins
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“A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” -Jim Rohn
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“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” -Charles R. Swindoll
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“People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.” -Eminem
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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.” -Amelia Earhart
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“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” -Robert Frost
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“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” -Wayne Dyer
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“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them.” -Confucius
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“But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.” -Aristotle
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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.” -Stephen Covey
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“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
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“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” -Lewis B. Smedes
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“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.” -Gillian Anderson
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“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.” -Muhammad Ali
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“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” -Maya Angelou
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“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.” -Lao Tzu
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“You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” -Joel Osteen
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“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
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“Chinese people themselves, they really want change.” -Dalai Lama
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“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” -Alan Cohen
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead
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“The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.” -William Arthur Ward
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“I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.” -Victoria Woodhull
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“Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.” -William C. Bryant
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“People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.” -Eleanor Clift
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“Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.” -Alice Meynell
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela
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“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” -Michael Jordan
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“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.” -Plutarch
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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” -Harriet Tubman
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“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” -Albert Einstein
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“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean
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“When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.” -Bernard Meltzer
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” -Charles Darwin
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“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.” -Katharine Hepburn
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“You change your life by changing your heart.” -Max Lucado
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“People change and forget to tell each other.” -Lillian Hellman
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“True change takes place in the imagination.” -Thomas Moore
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“I don’t know if you can change things, but it’s a drop in the ocean.” -Julie Walters
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“If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.” -Mary Douglas
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“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.” -Havelock Ellis
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“The more things change, the more they are the same.” -Alphonse Karr
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“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything… or nothing.” -Nancy Astor
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“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.” -Katherine Mansfield
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“Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.” -Douglas Horton
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“We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.” -Carl T. Rowan
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“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.” -Armistead Maupin
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“If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that’s got to be good, hasn’t it?” -Ian Botham
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“Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.” -Owen Feltham
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“I try to contrast life today is full of contrast… We have to change.” -Gianni Versace
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“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.” -J. Paul Getty
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“Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?” -Lord Byron
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“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.” -William Glasser
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“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.” -Irene Peter
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“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“To change what you get you must change who you are.” -Vernon Howard
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” -Flannery O’Connor
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“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” -Nikos Kazantzakis
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“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” -Charles Kettering
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“All things must change to something new, to something strange.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.” -James Levine
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“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.” -Stanislaw Lec
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“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“Not only is women’s work never done, the definition keeps changing.” -Bill Copeland
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“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” -Francis Bacon
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“Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change where we are right, make us easy to live with.” -Peter Marshall
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“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” -Sydney J. Harris
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“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” -Hugh Prather
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“There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.” -Josh Billings
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“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” -Nathaniel Branden
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“All I want to do is change the world.” -W. Clement Stone
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“Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.” -Denise McCluggage
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“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.” -Timothy Leary
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“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” -Carl Jung
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“It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” -Harold Wilson
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“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” -A. C. Benson
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“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.” -John A. Simone, Sr.
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“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.” -Harrison Ford
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“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.” -Shunryu Suzuki
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“Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.” -Esther Dyson
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“Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.” -Frank Herbert
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“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Frederick Douglass
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“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” -Arnold Bennett
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“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” -Gail Sheehy
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“Things do not change we change.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.” -Dean Acheson
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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” -Alan Watts
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“Money and success don’t change people they merely amplify what is already there.” -Will Smith
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“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” -Ellen Glasgow
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“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.” -Bertolt Brecht
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“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” -C.…
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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.” -Anatole France
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“I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.” -John Lennon
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“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” -Ronald Reagan
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“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.” -Viktor E. Frankl
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“To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.” -Winston Churchill
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