Change Quotes - Page 23

• We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Accepting, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press

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  In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

  Ernst Fischer

  Art, Society, Decay

  Ernst Fischer, Anna Bostock (1978). “The necessity of art: a Marxist approach”, Puffin

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• To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

  Tom Peters

  Past, Demand, Scene

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• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Truth, Past

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

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• Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

  Laurens van der Post

  Life Changing, Journey, Growth

  Laurens Van der Post (1979). “Venture to the interior”, Harcourt

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• To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

  William James

  Life, Philosophical, Inspire

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• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Morning

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Voice, Growth, Inability

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• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Persistence, Organization

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lakes, Stones, Littles

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• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

  John Lennon

  Wisdom, Love Yourself, Passion

  "Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

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• It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Inspirational, Morning, Home

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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, Strength, Strong

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• Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

  Herbert Otto Gille

  Life, Self Esteem, Learning

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• Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

  George Eliot

  Life, Influence, Succession

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2578, ShandonPress

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• Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss

  Publilius Syrus

  Mean, Humility, Reality

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• Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

  Bernard Baruch

  Truth, Reality, Views

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• Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Growth, Eternal Love, Eternity

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.47, Publishdrive

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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Passion, Heart

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Relationship, Children

  "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog". Book by Bruce D. Perry, 2006.

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  It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

  Miles Davis

  Creating, Acting, Safe

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Dance, People

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• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teamwork, Collaboration, Redemption

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• All movements go too far.

  Bertrand Russell

  Movement, Belief

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.71, Routledge

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• The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beautiful, Nature, Mean

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