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Creating Positive Change QuotesFamous Creating Positive Change quotes by popular authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aldous Huxley, James Lane Allen, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Hyemeyohsts Storm and others.
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[highlight-text]Change means the unknown.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Nature's mighty law is change.
Robert Burns
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[highlight-text]Change is what people fear most.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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[highlight-text]Old habits are strong and jealous.
Dorothea Brande
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[highlight-text]To be honest one must be inconsistent.
H. G. Wells
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[highlight-text]It's a bad plan that can't be changed.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]The moment of change is the only poem.
Adrienne Rich
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[highlight-text]The hearts of great men can be changed.
Homer
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[highlight-text]Duration is not a test of true or false.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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[highlight-text]It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.
Latin Proverb
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[highlight-text]Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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[highlight-text]Without imagination nothing is dangerous.
Georgette Leblanc
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[highlight-text]Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Moliere
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[highlight-text]New links must be forged as old ones rust.
Jane Howard
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[highlight-text]When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.
Tuli Kupferberg
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[highlight-text]I will not change just to court popularity.
Margaret Thatcher
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[highlight-text]The death of dogma is the birth of reality.
Immanuel Kant
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[highlight-text]The key to change ... is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash
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[highlight-text]Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
Margaret Deland
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[highlight-text]One must lose one's life in order to find it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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[highlight-text]New things cannot come where there is no room.
Mario Morgan
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[highlight-text]To change and to improve are two different things.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]A man's fortune must first be changed from within.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]One person's constant is another person's variable.
Susan Gerhart
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[highlight-text]Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.
Phyllis McGinley
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[highlight-text]It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.
Nancy Thayer
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[highlight-text]If you want to make enemies try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]The more things change the more they remain the same.
Alphonse Karr
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[highlight-text]It is best to learn as we go not go as we have learned.
Leslie Jeanne Sahler
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[highlight-text]The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]A man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.
James Lane Allen
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[highlight-text]All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
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[highlight-text]You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.
Henry B. Wilson
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[highlight-text]There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
Jonathan Swift
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[highlight-text]When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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[highlight-text]A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.
Fischer's Law
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[highlight-text]Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
William Allen White
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[highlight-text]A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.
Henry S. Haskins
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[highlight-text]No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road turn back.
Turkish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]If you want to stand out don't be different be outstanding.
Meredith West
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[highlight-text]The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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[highlight-text]Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
Katherine Mansfield
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[highlight-text]Change is not made without inconvenience even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker
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[highlight-text]If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose the more you will find.
Saint Catherine of Siena
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[highlight-text]The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
Edward Noyes Westcott
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[highlight-text]To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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[highlight-text]Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.
Christina Baldwin
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[highlight-text]One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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[highlight-text]There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
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[highlight-text]We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Irene Peter
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[highlight-text]Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson
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[highlight-text]Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Coco Chanel
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[highlight-text]It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
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[highlight-text]Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.
Abraham Cowley
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[highlight-text]Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
Marianne Williamson
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[highlight-text]Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
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[highlight-text]There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George
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[highlight-text]Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
Alice Meynell
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[highlight-text]Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.
John H. Patterson
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[highlight-text]The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.
Bertolt Brecht
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[highlight-text]The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
Golda Meir
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[highlight-text]Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
Shirley MacLaine
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[highlight-text]The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
Lois Wyse
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[highlight-text]All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.
Luigi Pirandello
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[highlight-text]Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfills himself in many ways.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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[highlight-text]My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown
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[highlight-text]Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.
Carol Pearson
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[highlight-text]You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.
Henry B. Wilson
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[highlight-text]Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus
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[highlight-text]The world does not have to change... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.
Gerald Jampolsky
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[highlight-text]The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
Lady Astor
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[highlight-text]This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.
Hyemeyohsts Storm
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[highlight-text]He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
Anwar Sadat
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[highlight-text]Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!
Andre Gide
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[highlight-text]One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
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[highlight-text]The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.
John Hersey
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[highlight-text]If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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[highlight-text]The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
Havelock Ellis
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[highlight-text]Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.
Robert Moses
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[highlight-text]Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
Lyman Lloyd Bryson
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[highlight-text]A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.
Florence Nightingale
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[highlight-text]In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.
Edna O'Brien
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[highlight-text]We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James
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[highlight-text]When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.
Christina Baldwin
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[highlight-text]All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.
Karl Marx
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[highlight-text]Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
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[highlight-text]Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos
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[highlight-text]I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs it is the parting.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
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[highlight-text]The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
William J. Johnston
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[highlight-text]A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
William James
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[highlight-text]It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.
Freya Stark
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[highlight-text]He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tyron Edwards
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[highlight-text]It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Christian Bovee
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[highlight-text]New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke
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[highlight-text]If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.
Gelett Burgess
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[highlight-text]As we learn we always change and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.
Hyemeyohsts Storm
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[highlight-text]Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
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[highlight-text]Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
Carlos Castaneda
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[highlight-text]The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
William H. Seward
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[highlight-text]Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.
Everett M. Dirksen
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[highlight-text]I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
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[highlight-text]You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's being taken away. Just look to see what's been added.
Jackie Greer
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[highlight-text]If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks Atkinson
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[highlight-text]How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. 'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.'
Trina Paulus
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[highlight-text]The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.
Pope Pius XI
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[highlight-text]Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong
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[highlight-text]Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.
James Lane Allen
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[highlight-text]There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
William O. Douglas
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[highlight-text]They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich
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[highlight-text]Today is not yesterday; how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
John Caldwell Calhoun
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[highlight-text]Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
Margery Allingham
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[highlight-text]Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
Anatole France
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[highlight-text]After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.
Alfred Edward Perlman
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[highlight-text]Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
Jean Dubuffet
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[highlight-text]Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.
Simone de Beauvoir
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[highlight-text]We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
Learned Hand
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[highlight-text]The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.
Will Garcia
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[highlight-text]Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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[highlight-text]It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
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[highlight-text]Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
Anais Nin
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[highlight-text]Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly completely successfully or just completely the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Julie Burchill
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[highlight-text]With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic living use.
Anais Nin
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[highlight-text]We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves 'What will happen if ... ?' or better still 'How can we make it happen?'
Lisa Taylor
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[highlight-text]Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas beliefs habits even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to do something.
Inga Teekens
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[highlight-text]Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.
John Dewey
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[highlight-text]Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.
Donald M. Nelson