Shifting Quotes

• In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Self Improvement, Analysis

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Fear, Thinking

  Interview with Bridget Foley, www.wmagazine.com. March 1, 2007.

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• Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

  Livy

  Clever, Men, Blame

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 25,

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• Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Science

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• Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

  Emily Dickinson

  Idols, Cooking, Fickle

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

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• Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

  David Suzuki

  Simple, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

  Paul Ryan

  Leadership, Responsibility, Men

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 17, 2012

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• The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

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• Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world

  Melody Beattie

  Moving, Responsibility, Movement

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• No place is the same because everything is shifting always.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mysticism

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• We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

  Angeles Arrien

  Trust, Christian, Letting Go

  Angeles Arrien (2010). “The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self

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• Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

  Timothy Keller

  Life Changing, Blame, Repentance

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• You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Differences, Keys

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• It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Simple, Color

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.

  Willis Harman

  Change, Military, Life Changing

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• If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

  Gary Zukav

  Forgiveness, Hate, Light

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 09, 2017

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• There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Change, Live Life, Book

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• Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Rain, Blow, Wind

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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• Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.

  Maurice Strong

  Food, Home, Air

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• The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

  Mary Midgley

  Life, Death, Philosophy

  Mary Midgley (1998). “Animals and why They Matter”, p.27, University of Georgia Press

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• It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Roots, Approval, Opinion

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2014

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• The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

  Terry Brooks

  Mazes, Tonight, Done

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Scions of Shannara”, p.35, Del Rey

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• We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

  Derren Brown

  Pain, Shoes, Focus

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