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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Time, Past

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Happy

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

  John Henry Newman

  Inspirational, Wish, Use

  John Henry Newman (1844). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.225, Aeterna Press

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• What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strong, Children, Attitude

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• Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

  George S. Patton

  Business, Past, Survival

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• The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Success, Leadership, Peace

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

  J. B. Priestley

  Equality, Men, Trying

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• The moment of change is the only poem.

  Adrienne Rich

  Healing, Poetry, Poetic

  Adrienne Rich (1971). “The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970”, p.47, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Blood, People, Heat

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• In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

  Carl Rogers

  Relationship, Healing, Years

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

  Lauren Oliver

  Breakup, Wind, Different

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• Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

  Seth Godin

  Courage, Art, Creative

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.77, Penguin

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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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• Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

  W. H. Murray

  Moving, Growth, Moments

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• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Friendship, Nature

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.316, Transaction Publishers

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• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Business, Humorous

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

  John Ciardi

  Ideas, Growth, Good Questions

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

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

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• The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

  William H. Seward

  Growth, Purpose, World

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• For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us.

  James Dillet Freeman

  Love, Heart, Power

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