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If we don't change, we don't grow.
by Gail Sheehy

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

Related topics: Inspirational Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

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 dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen

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

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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 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

Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie

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

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison

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

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

I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

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

You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado

If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

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

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

Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

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

We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie