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The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it's head.
Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
You don't have to change who you are for anyone: if you are your regular, authentic, confident self, then you can push to do whatever you want.
Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.
Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?
We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
The great thing about change, is that it absolutely, positively, always means things are going to get even better. Even when you don't know how.
Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
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!
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land
The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
I don't think my personality will change. No matter how much time passes or how old I get, I'd like to be considered a playful person to everyone.
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.
All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.
Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.
I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.
A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.
Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?