"That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."

Bacon, Francis on change
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"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on communication
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin."

Seneca on sin   

"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."

Rather, Dan on trials
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"It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning."

Adalphos, General on change
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"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."

Alinsky, Saul on change
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

Alther, Lisa on change
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"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. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."

Asimov, Isaac on change
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing."

Astor, Lady Nancy on change
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on government   

"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on goals
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on amusement
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on affection
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"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

Frost, Robert on acceptance
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"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on difficulties
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"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

Frost, Robert on education
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

Frost, Robert on education
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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on epitaphs
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"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."

Frost, Robert on failure
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"There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them."

Frost, Robert on fear
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"No wind favors him who has no destined port."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on goals
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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on ambition   

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on age and aging
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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on defeat
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"But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on dream   

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on education
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"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on education
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"Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on example   

"All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fame
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"The thing I fear most is fear."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fear
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"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on girls   

"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on friends and friendship   

"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on fools and foolishness
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