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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
 
It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but those most responsive to change.
 
When you are finished changing, you are finished.
 
The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
 
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, wityout any other reason but because they are not common.
 
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
 
In order to learn one must change one’s mind.
 
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
 
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
 
Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
 
Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.
 
One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others.
 
One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.
 
The only way to change our lives is by changing our minds.
 
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
 
It is a bad plan that admits no modification.
 
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
 
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
 
To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many enemies.
 
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
 
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.
 
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
 
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
 
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
 
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
 
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