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• Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

  Holly Black

  People, Choices, Live By

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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  A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

  Catherine the Great

  Creativity, Wind Blowing, Ideas

  "Daughters of Eve". Book by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 192, 1930.

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• We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Growth, Starting Anew

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.265, Penguin

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• The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Goal

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits".

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• If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  Book, Want, Language

  The Leopard ch. 1 (1957) (translation by Archibald Colquhoun)

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• And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

  Libba Bray

  Inspirational, Motivational, Life Changing

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

  Socrates

  Remember, Fortune, Human Condition

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• Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Enjoy It While It Lasts, Delight, World

  "The Razor's Edge". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1944.

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• 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.

  R. D. Laing

  Historical, Aging, Moments

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• A man's character is his fate.

  Heraclitus

  Life, Philosophical, Character

  On the Universe fragment 121

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• I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Party, Labour

  Tony Blair (1996). “New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country”

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• You really can change the world if you care enough.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Black History, African American

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• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Angel, Spirituality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

  Paris Hilton

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

  Hugh Prather

  Life, Learning, Thinking

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam

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• After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

  Alfred E. Perlman

  Years, Looks, Suspicion

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• If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

  Ian Botham

  Gambling, Three, Hundred

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• s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

  Abraham Cowley

  Scene, Constant, Inconstancy

  'The Mistress: or...Love Verses' (1647) 'Inconstancy'

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• Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence.

  Masatoshi Naito

  Growth, Process, Endure

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• Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

  Phillips Brooks

  God, Opinion, Week

  "The Purpose and Use of Comfort".

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• The world is changing and so is fashion.

  Giorgio Armani

  Life, Fashion, World

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• I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, America

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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