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Change Quotes
"Let the change begin with your choices this very moment."
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"Things cannot stay the same because they are influenced by everything else, everything that is not itself."
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"When you keep hitting walls of resistance in life, the universe is trying to tell you that you are going the wrong way. It's like driving a bumper car at an amusement park. Each time you slam into another car or the edge of the track, you are forced to change direction."
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"I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also suggests that some leaps of identification are impossible. I refuse to accept that, because it leads to the conclusion that real change is beyond us, and so is empathy."
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"At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation."
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"And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect."
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"Change only happens when the mind is willing to change."
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"It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before."
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"There is no transformation of life without the renewing of the mind."
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"People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't."
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"In your winter you deny your spring."
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"Our world desperately needs change. We all know this. The scope of the change ranges from our lifestyles to the direction of our civilization. When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and the caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin."
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"In with the new, out with the old.' That's what we're told. We have to change, adapt, compromise."
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"People submit tooeasily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, wheneverthey consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what theyare giving up, never what they are about to gain."
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"Crying is like a thundershower for the soul. The air feels so wonderful after the rain. Don't think too much. Breathe. Don't be harsh or demanding on yourself. Just experience your feelings and know that your tears are announcing change in your life. Change is coming, like a summer rain - to wash away your pain. Have faith that things are getting better."
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"Change, it seems, is inevitable. And so is compromise."
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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."
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"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."
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"If you want to feel the sunshine, change position!"
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"But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you."
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"Your bread assumes the shape of the pan you use to bake your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you can't use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the pan and change the shape of the bread!"
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"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change."
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"It seems to occur to few of the attendees [of a writing retreat] that if you have a feel you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class."
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"Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well."
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"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it."
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"Once again we have misleading climate change pronouncements being based on data errors, data errors detected by non-UN, non-IPCC, non-peer-reviewed external observers. This is exactly what happens when you base your arguments on 'consensus science' and not scientific fact."
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"Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological."
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"Change shouldn't be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization."
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"Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on."
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"Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world's in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck."
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"You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time."
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"Things don't only change, they also change you; sometimes for good, sometimes not."
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"Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow."
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