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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Charles R. Swindoll.
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
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
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 is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
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
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
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
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I welcome change. I drive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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
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