A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.
If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
You change the world by being yourself.
The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.
Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.
I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.
In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Change and everything will change for you.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness
You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that's important.
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