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Change

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

18.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

28.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

34.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen