Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
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Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Chanting OM is sort of like MOOing backward.
- Anonymous
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully
between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
Many of us have been conditioned to trust others' opinions
more than our own, and I believe that sort of trust is excessive.
This is especially true with regard to authority figures -
doctors, lawyers, priests. I trust my doctor's intentions toward me,
but I don't blindly follow his suggestions
without checking other sources also.
He was trained to prescribe a pill for everything,
and does it with the best of intentions,
but I often choose to trust God's quiet voice inside me
rather than my doctor's medical advice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts
and grinding out conclusions.
- Charles Darwin
Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent.
Only no-mind is original and radical.
Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.
The mind gives you a sort of stupor.
Burdened by the memories of the past,
burdened by the projections of the future,
you go on living - at the minimum.
You dont live at the maximum.
Your flame remains very dim.
Once you start dropping thoughts,
the dust that you have collected in the past,
the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.
Your whole life becomes a flame,
and a flame without any smoke.
That is what awareness is.
- Osho
The basic thing nobody asks is
why do people take drugs of any sort?
Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?
I mean, is there something wrong with society
that's making us so pressurized,
that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
- John Lennon
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 
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)
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
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