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“Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely.”

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“I don't know who I am right now. But I know who I'm not. And I like that.”

Truth Real Life Identity Crisis

Book:The Way I Used to Be

Source: The Way I Used to Be

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

Change Self Improvement Adaptation Open Mindedness

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

Change Fear Of Change

Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”

Change Depression Misery Hardship

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

Change Destiny Choice Achieved

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.”

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“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”

Change Self Determination Self Development

Author:Socrates

“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get--a cold sick feeling, deep down inside--when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.”

Book:A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works.”

Change Insightful

Book:Fixing Delilah

Source: Fixing Delilah

“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.”

Author:William James