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• I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspirational, Believe, Safe Haven

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Happiness, Freedom

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

  Annie Lennox

  Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

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• I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adventure

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• Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Successful

  "Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't".

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• The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

  Tony Robbins

  Happiness, Pain, Mind

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Animal, Differences

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• It is in changing that things find purpose.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Purpose

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Memories, Past

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 12 (1905)

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your internal compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passions or motivate you to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Passion, Track

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 03, 2011

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Ideas, Society, Requirements

  Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.7, Routledge

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• There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

  Washington Irving

  Life Changing, People Changing, Comfort

  1824 Tales of a Traveller,'To the Reader'.

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• I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Inspirational, Imperfect World, Order

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• When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Age, Restless

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• Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

  Princess Diana

  Kindness, Knowledge, Punishment

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• The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Deep Thought, Trying

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

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• Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

  Robert Kennedy

  Courage, Creativity, Patriotic

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Peace, Growth, Way

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Workout, People, Confusion

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

  Ken Blanchard

  World, Advantage, Enjoy

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• The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Thinking, Years

  David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1959). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

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