"The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now."

Change, Life, Act, Emotions

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"The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now."

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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

John Green, American Author

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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

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"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

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"The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now."

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"The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out."

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"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern."

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"The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions."

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"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."

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"I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive."

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"Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide."

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"Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences."

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"We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power."

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"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."

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