| Change: (transform...modify...variation...changing ) |
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| All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain? --- Buddha 563BC |
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| Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with |
| experimenting with his own life. --- Herbert Otto |
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| Change is a part of every life. Resisting is often as futile as it is frustrating. --- Anon xxxx |
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| Determination, patience and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation. And, if you want a |
| situation changed badly enough, you will find these three things. --- Anon xxxx |
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| Even God cannot change the past. --- Agathon 446BC |
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| Everything flows and nothing stays. --- Heraclitus 535BC |
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| Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events ... |
| it is from numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. --- Robert F Kennedy 1925 |
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| 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. --- Serenity Prayer |
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| I can't change the direction of the wind. But I can adjust my sails --- Anon xxxx |
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| Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is |
| change, life is understanding. --- Marcus Aurelius 121 |
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| My personal trials have taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized |
| that there were two ways that I could respond to my situation: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform |
| the suffering into a creative force. --- Martin Luther King, Jr 1929 |
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| My theme is to make a difference right here in my own neighborhood. I don't have to fight the whole world. If I |
| do well where I am, it will make a difference in the rest of the world... People want to do and to be better. They |
| need inspiration to change and to try to make a difference. They need a catalyst to inspire faith and to encourage |
| them to take a risk...(once a Mexican-American migrant farm worker) --- Esau Herrera |
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| Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing |
| that ever has. --- Margaret Mead |
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| One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us |
| discomfort, for change is the very essence of life. --- Anatole France 1844 |
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| Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour |
| mental counduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The |
| nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. --- |
| Laurence J. Peter |
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| The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of |
| their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. --- William James 1842 |
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| The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are |
| transformed. --- Carl Jung 1875 |
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| The more things change, the more they stay the same . (plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.) --- Alphonse |
| Karr 1808 |
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| The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn ... and change. --- Carl Rogers |
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| The world is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. --- Marcus Aurelius 121 |
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| Things do not change; we change. --- Henry David Thoreau 1817 |
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| Three basic commodities that allow people to take action: 'Information (data, technical knowledge, political |
| intelligence, expertise); resources (funds, materials, space, time); and support (endorsement, backing, approval, |
| legitimacy).' ('The Change Masters') --- Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
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| Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. --- Seneca 4BC |
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| We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. --- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 1749 |
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| We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it? What does Nature hold dearer, |
| or more proper to herself? Could you have a hot bath unless the firewood underwent some change.. is it possible |
| for any useful thing to be achieved without change? Do you not see, then, that change in yourself is of the same |
| order, and no less necessary to Nature? --- Marcus Aurelius 121 |
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| Whatever fate befalls you, do not give way to great rejoicing, or great lamentation… all things are full of change, |
| and your fortunes may turn at any moment. --- Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 |
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| When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look |
| forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. --- |
| Hugh White |
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| Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. --- Andre Gide 1869 |
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| You can't step into the same river twice. --- Heraclitus 535BC |
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| You must be the change you wish to see in the world. --- Mahatma Gandhi 1869 |
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