Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale 
When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Respond to emergencies in a casual manner.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
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)
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
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
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
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
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
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
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- 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
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
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
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)
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Your own body is a manifestation of God,
and if you honor your body everything will change for you
- don Miguel Ruiz
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
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
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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