"People don't change. Only their costumes do."

Moorse, Gene on change
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"Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives."

Hunt, Trinidad on change
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"It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash."

Carr, Emily on age and aging   

"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal."

Ferguson, Marilyn on change
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"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."

Covey, Stephen R. on change
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"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

Bono, Edward De on mind
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"Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them."

Unknown, Source on fortune   

"The foolish and the dead never change their opinions."

Lowell, James Russell on opinions
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"A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks"

Unknown, Source on smile
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"When you're through changing, you're through."

Barton, Bruce on change
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on change   

"The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?"

Whitman, Walt on past   

"Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."

Cather, Willa on art   

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

Baldwin, James on change
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"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction."

Dante Alighieri on fame
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"Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on change
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"We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't."

Clark, Frank A. on growth
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

Miller, Henry on growth
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"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

Tan, Amy on attitude
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"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."

Yeats, William Butler on happiness
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"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Peale, Norman Vincent on change
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order."

Whitehead, Alfred North on progress
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one."

Peck, M. Scott on learning
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"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."

Burroughs, William S. on art
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"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on wisdom
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