We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand 
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Give a man one rabbit, and he will eat for a day;
give a man two rabbits, and he will
feed his family and his neighbors
and return you 64,768 rabbits in change.
- Anonymous
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
Life's a bitch... and then you change your attitude.
- Jennifer Unlimited
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson
Constant development is the law of life,
and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas
in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
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