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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
β Leo Tolstoy

Wisdom for Every Moment
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Change in all things is sweet.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
To change what you get, you must change who you are.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
The more things change, the more they are the same.
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
As with anything creative, change is inevitable.