
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly,
usually for the same reason.
- Anonymous
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
- George Carlin
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
- Gene Wolfe
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want,
but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time has been transformed, and we have changed;
it has advanced and set us in motion;
it has unveiled its face,
inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
- Khalil Gibran
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed,
but while it holds good
it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach
Memorial Day remains one of America's
most cherished patriotic observances.
The spirit of this day has not changed -
it remains a day to honor those who
died defending our freedom and democracy.
- Doc Hastings
Tonight, late, when I'm still not done with the day
but must comply with sleep,
I can whisper, "There was done a little good today.
Today I changed myself and the world, just a little.
And yes, I loved." Most days, that is enough.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Personally, I have fond memories of playing
on slippery rocks on the banks of a rushing river
as a child and hitchhiking in college.
To those who say, "But times are different now,"
I reply that statistically life is much safer now
than in the 1950s, with regard to both crime and accidents.
What has changed is our attitudes.
In those years, a broken leg from falling off a swing
or the back of a tractor was just part of childhood -
an excuse for gathering autographs.
Today that broken leg would be a source
of outrage and probably lawsuits.
I long for a simpler time when life was taken less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
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
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
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
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
Life's a bitch... and then you change your attitude.
- Jennifer Unlimited
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
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)
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
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
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
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
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
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
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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