“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
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“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.”
“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”
“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.”
“I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.”
“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.”
“Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.”
“People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.”
“I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.”
“A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.”
“In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”
“What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.”
“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.”
“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”