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What is necessary to change a person is
by Abraham Maslow

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Self Perspective

Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow PHOTO

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow

The ability to be in the present moment
is a major component of mental wellness.
- Abraham Maslow

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If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke


 

The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter

All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Faith is the great affirmative power that
says "yes" to the infinite goodness of life -
regardless of appearances. We all have within us
the potential for mountain-moving faith,
but we must take the steps necessary to activate it.
- Mary Omwake

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead

Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung

It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell

An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln

I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation,
which are as necessary as reading.
I will rather say more necessary
because health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson

Having seen the devastation of war first hand,
Eisenhower came both to despise war
and to see that "war settles nothing."
On the other hand, Ike was certainly no peacenik.
He understood that, in an emergency,
action must be met with reaction.
When truly necessary, violence met with violence -
but never hate responded to with hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show
by what road it will pass to destruction,
to wit: by consolidation of power first,
and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Thomas Jefferson

War may sometimes be a necessary evil.
But no matter how necessary,
it is always an evil, never a good.
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln

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 of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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)

Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown

We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

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

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett

Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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


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