God reigns when we take a liberal view.
- Henry David Thoreau
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor
in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
- Henry David Thoreau
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power,
have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government,
and form a new one that suits them better.
This is a most valuable - a most sacred right -
a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
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
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
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
Life's a bitch... and then you change your attitude.
- Jennifer Unlimited
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
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
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
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
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
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
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
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 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
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
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 greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
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.
- Carl Jung
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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
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