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We cannot change our past.
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

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

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

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

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

Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett

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

When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown

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

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)

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

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

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

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

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

Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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 most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

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

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

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

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

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

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson

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

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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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

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 of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

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

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

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

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

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

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

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

We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

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

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

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

To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

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

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 must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

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