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• she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.264, 谷月社

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• We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

  John Wesley

  Instruction, Wiser, Willing

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.180

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• Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.

  Bo Lozoff

  Kindness, Opportunity, Each Day

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.96, Penguin

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• In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Mean, People, Don't Change

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

  Prince Philip

  Change, Challenges, Doe

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• We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Asking

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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Business, Mean

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Leadership, Real

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• Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Opportunity, Men, Sometimes

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• Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is.
  Just go on becoming more and more aware
  you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension.
  It will bring great fulfilment

  Rajneesh

  Life Changing, Meditation, Goes On

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• Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Uplifting, Creativity, Recovery

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• God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Perfect, Christianity

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A.W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures - 1930-31, Volume 5 of 17”, p.145, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

  Richard Marcinko

  Change, Hurt, Confused

  Richard Marcinko (1997). “Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success”

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• I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. [With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white knight and was crushed whenever anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess. Now I'm much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept someone -- the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the better. I couldn't be happier or feel more comfortable with the direction it's going in.

  Jennifer Garner

  Princess, Hard Work, Knights

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• I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates that we can walk with our eyes wide open straight into sheer destruction if there is a profit on the way-and that seems to me to be what we are doing now. I have no great expectation that human cussedness will somehow be quickly modified and turned into generosity or that humanity's care of the earth will improve much. But I do go around planting trees on the campus.

  Joseph Sittler

  Believe, Eye, Generosity

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• The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Change, Believe

  "Enlightened Activism" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2015.

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• Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Generosity, Doe

  "Why We Are All Artists: Seth Godin in Conversation – Part 1". Interview with Mary Jaksch, writetodone.com.

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• Innovating Women is more important today than ever. Things are changing for the better. The recent announcements by Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook of their diversity numbers—and a pledge to improve these—are the most recent victories. The Boys Club is under fire and is trying to reform itself. Women are achieving success and helping each other. Advancing technologies are leveling the playing field. Women are in the catbird seat for the new era of exponential innovation. This is the time to inspire and motivate—and that is what Innovating Women will surely do.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Boys, Technology, Fire

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• Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down. And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around.

  Pimp C

  Pimp, Down And, Fool

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• It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Self, Would Be

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.475, Princeton University Press

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• At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.

  C. H. Douglas

  Change, Time, Alternatives

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• That is definitely the heart and soul of Rise Against — that passion to inspire change for the better.

  Joe Principe

  Passion, Heart, Inspire

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• Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

  Isaac Newton

  Change, Impact, Uniforms

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• I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Strong, Trying, Ability

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• It's good to be aware that a certain amount of fear is going to accompany every change in your life - a change for the worse or a change for the better. Knowing this can stop you from moving into fear about Change Itself. If you start fearing change generically you could wind up shrinking from ever making any kind of change at all for the rest of your day - even a change that obviously should be made for your own good.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Knowing, Wind

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 09, 2015

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