change

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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

2.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

- Plutarch

3.

Above all things you've got to be yourself, and if some rule or guideline excludes you because of who you are, then you are obligated to change the rules.

- Katheryn Phillips

4.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

- Lampkin, Alan

5.

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

- Linda Dillow

6.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

- Sutrakritanga

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Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.

- Buckle, Henry Thomas

8.

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

- John F. Kennedy

9.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

- Deepak Chopra

10.

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

- Joseph Addison

11.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

12.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

- Biko, Steven

13.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.

- Gordon Moore

15.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

17.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

- Paz, Octavio

18.

Swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

- William Shakespeare

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Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

- Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

- Gerald White Johnson