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• You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don’t get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.

  Gail Caldwell

  Mistake, Choices, One Day

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• There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

  Dan Harris

  Unhappy, Being Unhappy, Can't Change

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• I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

  Bijou Phillips

  World, Changing The World, Can't Change

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• Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

  Cornelia Funke

  Believe, Way, Curious

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• My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can’t change the past, but the future isn’t set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Moving, Past

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.172, Macmillan

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• The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Dog, People, Political

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

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• The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Death, God

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.304, Penguin

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• Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

  Darrin Patrick

  Past, Worry, Moments

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• Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Exercise, Differences, Making A Difference

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• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  Daisy Donovan

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father

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• If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

  Audre Lorde

  Reality, Perception, Can't Change

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• One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.

  Thom Yorke

  Two, People, World

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• Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway

  Jenny Holzer

  Advice, Enjoy, Can't Change

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Compassion, Regimes, Harder

  "'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer". Salmagundi, 113, 1997.

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• Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Change, Strength

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• Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

  Lydia Lunch

  Miserable, Wells, Can't Change

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• I don't hate it. It does no good to hate something you can't change.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hate, Doe, Don't Hate

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.45, MIRA

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• We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.

  Randy Pausch

  Can't Change

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• I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Can't Change, I Can

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• You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kind, Goddess, Grass

  "Lords and Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.

  Megan Hart

  Can't Change, Ifs

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• I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

  Gore Vidal

  Stars, Writing, Want

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• I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.

  Margaret Laurence

  Believe, Accepting, Can't Change

  Margaret Laurence (2016). “The Stone Angel”, p.89, Head of Zeus

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• I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Past, Promise, Can't Change

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• Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. I’m sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scared…. But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, God chose the day I will die, so I can’t change that. In the meantime, I might as well take a chance, because that’s what I’ve done all my life.

  Waris Dirie

  Religious, Strong, Believe

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