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âAll great changes are preceded by chaos.â
â Deepak Chopra
âBe the change that you wish to see in the world.â
â Mahatma Gandhi
âIncredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.â
â Steve Maraboli
âLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.â
â James Baldwin
âBeauty will save the world.â
â Dostoevsky
âTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.â
â Marcel Proust
âIt is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.â
â Charles Darwin
âThere is nothing permanent except change.â
â Heraclitus
âChange brings opportunity.â
â Nido Qubein
âThe measure of a man is what he does with power.â
â Plato
âWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.â
â Joseph Campbell
âChange is not merely necessary to life - it is life.â
â Alvin Toffler
âWhen you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.â
â John Lewis
âThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.â
â Rumi
âThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.â
â Marcus Aurelius
âHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.â
â Anne Frank
âIt's not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.â
â Leon C. Megginson
âWe live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.â
â Ursula K. Le Guin
âProgress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.â
â George Bernard Shaw
âThe only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.â
â Isaac Asimov
âIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.â
â Voltaire
âBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.â
â Rilke
âTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.â
â Henri Bergson
âNothing is forever except change.â
â Buddha
âConsider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.â
âYou must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?â
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âEvery action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.â
â James Clear
âA year from now you will wish you had started today.â
â Karen Lamb
âA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.â
â John A. Shedd
âThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.â
â Hannah Arendt
âChange your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now, without delay.â
â Simone de Beauvoir
âChange before you have to.â
â Jack Welch
âRevolution is not a one-time event.â
â Audre Lorde
âYou must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.â
â Denis Waitley
âIn times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.â
â Eric Hoffer
âYou cant get to courage without walking through vulnerability.â
â Brene Brown
âWe must cultivate our garden.â
âNo bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.â
â William Blake
âThe greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.â
â William James
âDo not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.â
â John D. Rockefeller
âChange is the end result of all true learning.â
â Leo Buscaglia
âEvery great dream begins with a dreamer.â
â Harriet Tubman
âThe art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.â
â Kakuzo Okakura
âWhen you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.â
â Paulo Coelho
âGreatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.â
â Dorothy Height
âAll things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.â
â Ovid
âNothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.â
â Mary Shelley
âWhen one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.â
â Helen Keller
âLetting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.â
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âThere is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.â
â Machiavelli
âYou can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.â
â Jon Kabat-Zinn
âYou may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.â
â Margaret Thatcher
âIf you want to make enemies, try to change something.â
â Woodrow Wilson
âMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.â
â Andre Gide
âIt is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.â
â Epictetus
âCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.â
â Mark Twain
âThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold.â
â W.B. Yeats
âIf you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.â
â Dalai Lama
âIf there is a book that you want to read, but it hasnt been written yet, then you must write it.â
â Toni Morrison
âHe who rejects change is the architect of decay.â
â Harold Wilson
âHope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.â
â Rebecca Solnit
âIt's not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.â
âAll that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change.â
â Octavia Butler
âIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.â
â Booker T. Washington
âCourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.â
â Franklin D. Roosevelt
âLife is about change. Sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's beautiful. But most of the time, it's both.â
â Lana Lang
âThe secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.â
â Socrates
âThe changes we dread most may contain our salvation.â
â Barbara Kingsolver
âAll things must change to something new, to something strange.â
â Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
âWe cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.â
â Carl Jung
âThe wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.â
â Unknown
âYou must be the change you wish to see in the world.â
âWhat seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.â
â Oscar Wilde
âWhen they go low, we go high.â
â Michelle Obama
âWhen we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.â
â Viktor Frankl
âCourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.â
â Ambrose Redmoon
âYou cannot change what you are, only what you do.â
â Philip Pullman
âThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.â
âThe softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.â
â Tao Te Ching
âGod, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.â
â Reinhold Niebuhr
âNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.â
âMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.â
âInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.â
â Martin Luther King Jr.
âThose who do not move, do not notice their chains.â
â Rosa Luxemburg
âDo not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.â
â Benjamin Franklin
âI am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.â
â Angela Davis
âThey always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.â
â Andy Warhol
âAccept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.â
âAction is the foundational key to all success.â
â Pablo Picasso
âAnother world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.â
â Arundhati Roy
âThings do not change; we change.â
â Thoreau
âOnly those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.â
â Robert F. Kennedy
âIn everyone lives the seed of a better world.â
â Albert Schweitzer
âThe truth will set you free, but first it will make you angry.â
â Gloria Steinem
âThe world is a scene of changes, and to be constant in nature were inconstancy.â
â Abraham Cowley
âLoss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.â
âWhatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.â
â Goethe
âCreativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.â
â Erich Fromm
âHope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.â
â Vaclav Havel
âLife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.â
â Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
âYou must be the change you wish to see in the world around you, beginning with your own heart.â
âChange happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.â
â Tony Robbins
âOur greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.â
â Confucius
âWhat the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.â
â Richard Bach
âUntil the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.â
â Chinua Achebe
âThe world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.â
â Wendell Berry
âThe successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.â
â Bruce Lee
âIf opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.â
â Milton Berle
âHardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.â
â C.S. Lewis
âYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.â
â C.G. Jung
âObserve constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are.â
âWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.â
â NiccolÃ˛ Machiavelli
âEven in the winter, even in the dark, the sun does not lose its strength. It merely waits to return.â
âThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.â
â Zora Neale Hurston
âIf you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.â
â Desmond Tutu
âTransformation is often more about unlearning than learning.â
â Richard Rohr
âChange is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.â
â Robin Sharma
âNew beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.â
â Lao Tzu
âIt is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change.â
âCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fearânot absence of fear.â
âThe world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.â
â Charles Kettering
âA year from now you may wish you had started today.â
âEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me.â
â Hafiz
âFall seven times and stand up eight.â
â Japanese Proverb
âWhen you are through changing, you are through.â
â Bruce Barton
âSuccess seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.â
â Conrad Hilton
âAll changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves.â
â Anatole France
âThe function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.â
â Ralph Nader
âGreat things never came from comfort zones.â
â Anonymous
âBegin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.â
â Seneca
âKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.â
â bell hooks
âIt is the little things citizens do. That is what will make the difference.â
â Wangari Maathai
âAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.â
â Anais Nin
âWe cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.â
â Max DePree
âTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnât do than by the ones you did do.â
âEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.â
â Nelson Mandela
âIn a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.â
â Theodore Roosevelt
âIn every outward and visible grace of life, there is an inward and spiritual grace.â
â Rachel Carson
âYesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.â
âTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.â
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âWe cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.â
âFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.â
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âFall seven times, stand up eight.â
âYou gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.â
â Eleanor Roosevelt
âAll is flux, nothing stays still.â
âEvery strike brings me closer to the next home run.â
â Babe Ruth
â Alan Watts
âThe most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.â
â Adrienne Rich
âEverything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.â
âIt takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.â
â E.E. Cummings
âSuccess is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.â
â George S. Patton
âThe snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.â
âChange is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.â
â Mandy Hale
âWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.â
â Abraham Maslow
âYou never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.â
â Buckminster Fuller
âCourage is the power to let go of the familiar.â
â Raymond Lindquist
âThe greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.â
âYour silence will not protect you.â
âThe time is always right to do what is right.â
âThe first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.â
â Nathaniel Branden
âIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.â
â Krishnamurti
âThe space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.â
â Marie Kondo
âTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnât do than by the ones you did do.â
âA ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.â
âDon't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.â
âThe past is never dead. It is not even past.â
â William Faulkner
âWe are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.â
â Maya Angelou
âBecause things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.â
â Bertolt Brecht
âEvery wall is a door.â
âResistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.â
â Ali Vincent
âTo improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.â
âWithout change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement.â
â William Pollard
âThe art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.â
â Henry David Thoreau
âThe times they are a-changin.â
â Bob Dylan
âThe bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.â
âThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.â
âFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.â
âWhat you do today can improve all your tomorrows.â
â Ralph Marston
âIf I cant dance, I dont want to be part of your revolution.â
â Emma Goldman
âIf you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.â
âLeap, and the net will appear.â
â John Burroughs
âWhat we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.â
âThe ship is safest when it is in port, but thats not what ships were built for.â
âDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.â
âChange is the only constant in life.â
âIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.â
â Frederick Douglass
âIf you want to fly, you have to give up the stuff that weighs you down.â
âNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.â
â Pema Chodron
âJust when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.â
â Chuang Tzu
âI am large, I contain multitudes.â
â Walt Whitman
âIf you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.â
âSome people are old at eighteen and some are young at ninety.â
â Yoko Ono
âThe only constant in life is change.â
âCourage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'â
â Mary Anne Radmacher
âBe not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.â
âKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.â
âThe pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.â
â William Arthur Ward
âNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.â
âDo not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.â
âPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.â
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âIf you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.â
âThe successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science.â
â Thomas Kuhn
âThe people who must believe they are white can never be your measuring stick.â
â Ta-Nehisi Coates
âThe wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.â
âDo not be ashamed to need help. You have a duty to fulfill just as a soldier on the wall of battle.â
âEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.â
â Leo Tolstoy
âWind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them.â
â Nassim Nicholas Taleb
âAnd when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.â
âWhen the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.â
âI am a slow walker, but I never walk back.â
â Abraham Lincoln
âChange is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.â
â John F. Kennedy
âYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.â
â Virginia Woolf
âConsider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.â
âThe price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.â
â Bill Clinton
âThey must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.â
âThey must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.â
âWhen you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.â
âCulture does not make people. People make culture.â
â Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
âIn a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.â
â Benjamin Disraeli
âInnovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.â
â Steve Jobs
âThe best way to predict the future is to create it.â
â Peter Drucker
âHe who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.â
âBe not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.â
â Chinese Proverb
âBe like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it.â
âEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.â
â John Dewey
âIf you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions.â
â Catherine Cook
âEmbrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.â
â Bob Goff
âSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.â
â Mary Oliver
âThe only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.â
â Arthur C. Clarke
âChange the way you look at things and the things you look at change.â
â Wayne Dyer
âSmall deeds done are better than great deeds planned.â
â Peter Marshall
âIf you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.â
âThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.â
â Albert Camus
âIf you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.â
â Thomas Jefferson
âA book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.â
â Franz Kafka
âEducation does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world.â
â Paulo Freire
âChange alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.â
â Arthur Schopenhauer
âIn any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.â
âIf you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.â
âOur greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.â
âChange is not a threat, itâs an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.â
â Seth Godin
âEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms, to choose ones attitude.â
âIn the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.â
â Camus
âKnowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.â
â Aristotle
âSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.â
â Octavio Paz
âEvery moment is a fresh beginning.â
â T.S. Eliot
âIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.â
âNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.â
â Margaret Mead
âLet your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.â
â Rabindranath Tagore
âFailure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.â
â John Wooden
âTo be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.â
â Simone Weil
âMy humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.â
âIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.â
âWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.â
â Plutarch
âThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.â
âGet in good trouble, necessary trouble.â
âEvery success story is a tale of constant adaptation, revision, and change.â
â Richard Branson
âTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnât do than by the ones you did.â
âChange is inevitable. Growth is optional.â
â John C. Maxwell
âThese are the times that try mens souls.â
â Thomas Paine
âWe dont have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change.â
â Howard Zinn
âOpen your arms to change, but dont let go of your values.â
âEvery new beginning comes from some other beginningâs end.â
âI learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.â
âYesterday is but todays memory, and tomorrow is todays dream.â
â Kahlil Gibran
âEvery day is a new opportunity to change your life.â
âA different world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.â
â Naomi Klein
âThe general population doesnt know whats happening, and it doesnt even know that it doesnt know.â
â Noam Chomsky
âWithout deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.â
â Frank Zappa
âLife is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.â
âBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.â
âStrengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.â
â Mary Wollstonecraft
âAll journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.â
â Martin Buber
âNothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!â
â Audrey Hepburn
âThe three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.â
âThe most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way.â
â Grace Hopper
âThe world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.â
â Albert Einstein
âThanks to impermanence, everything is possible.â
âYour time is limited, do not waste it living someone elses life.â
âIf we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.â
â Gail Sheehy
âA persons success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.â
â Tim Ferriss
âAll progress takes place outside the comfort zone.â
â Michael John Bobak
âThe old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.â
â Antonio Gramsci
âSilence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.â
â Dietrich Bonhoeffer
âThe wise man changes his mind; the fool never will.â
âSome changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.â
â Eckhart Tolle
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