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• We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Believe, Past, People

  "Daniel Kahneman: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with Michael Schrage, www.strategy-business.com. 2003.

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• You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Hope, Jobs

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• Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Truth, Acceptance

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• Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

  Rob Bell

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Rob Bell from Jul 15, 2012

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• No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Personality

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• Learning another language is like becoming another person.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Learning, Self Improvement

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• All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Heart

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.46, Penguin

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• Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

  Tamora Pierce

  Novelists, Way, Action

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “The Woman Who Rides Like a Man”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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  Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Power, Men

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

  Bill Mollison

  Food, Garden, Agriculture

  "An introduction to permaculture". Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.

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• Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Inspirational, Happy, Time

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• Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

  Russell Kirk

  Inspirational, Men, Fire

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.274, Regnery Publishing

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Life Changing, Moving

  "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

  Harold Wilson

  Life Changing, Acceptance, Rejects You

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Inspirational, Order, Society

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• The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

  David Harvey

  Freedom, Exercise, Power

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• In all of our days our lives are always changing, tears come along as well as smiles... May you have rainbows after every storm, may you have hopes to keep you warm. And may you always have an angel by your side.

  Douglas Pagels

  Life, Smile, Hope

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• It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

  Derrick Bell

  Fear, African American, Progress

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• someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.

  Alice Miller

  Life, Children, Knowledge

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

  Kevin Carson

  Order, Law, Goal

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• I am not what I once was.
  [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

  Horace

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Creative, Mind

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