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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy
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oneself
world
Change alone is the constant.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Parerga and Paralipomena
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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oneself
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
Alan Watts
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dance
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri Bergson
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Creative Evolution
change
existence
oneself
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 Gustav Jung
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oneself
I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”
Lewis Carroll
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Anatole France
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Simone de Beauvoir
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Karl Marx
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Theses on Feuerbach
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philosopher
world
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
Bertolt Brecht
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They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Epistles
change
heaven
soul
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
change
oneself
world
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but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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yesterday
Change is always a pleasant thing.”
Euripides
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.”
George Bernard Shaw
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My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world.”
René Descartes
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Discourse on the Method
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oneself
world
Things do not change we change.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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thing
A plan that cannot be changed is a bad one.”
Publilius Syrus
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Sentences
change
And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
Meister Eckhart
change
trust
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
Confucius
change
happiness
wisdom
The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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The Lord of the Rings
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earth
water
world
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
Alan Watts
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life
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.”
Alphonse de Lamartine
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life
thought
I am not what I once was.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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to be
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
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nature
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.”
Henri Bergson
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When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.”
Paulo Coelho
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life
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.”
Isaac Asimov
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