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“it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.”

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.”

“Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.”

Giving Moments Change Entering

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.”

Way Feelings Games Change Environment Easier Truth Is Behavior Clubs Surroundings Our Environment

Book:Turning Points

Source: Turning Points

“Continuity in everything is unpleasant.”

Change Continuity

Book:Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

“...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from negative to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that.”

Needs Feels I Can Important Real Helping Energy Change Quality Environment Risk Letting Go Strive Help Me Negativity

Book:The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

Source: The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

“Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.”

Men Dream Political Social Change Struggle Economic Creating Men And Women Crisis Nervous Trends Breakdown Ecological Nervous Breakdown Ecological Crisis

Author:Bella Abzug

“people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.”

People Force Change Enemy Greater Genius Habit Capable Profound Cowardice Metamorphosis

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.”

Change One Word

Book:The Odyssey of Homer

Source: The Odyssey of Homer

“Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.”

Humans Fear Change Progress Losing Resistance Human Progress

Author:Marya Mannes

“very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.”

People Wells Looks Different Courses Bits Change Seven Seventeen

Book:The letters of Jean Rhys

Source: The letters of Jean Rhys

“No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.”

World Dies Change Born Maturity

Author:Margaret Mead

“American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.”

Change Ability United States Taken Remarkable Going Away American Society

Author:Nora Ephron

“Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.”

Political Change Party Essentials Function Resistance Political Parties Conservatism Orderly

Book:Points of Friction

Source: Points of Friction

“No great thing happens suddenly.”

Happens Change Things Happen Great Things

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.”

Thinking Different Sometimes Sound Change Fire Paper Died Rose Woods Dry

Book:Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

Source: Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

“I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.”

Ifs Thinking Mind States Government Growth Change Finals Get Away State Of Mind Viewpoints Change And Growth

Author:Agnes Sligh Turnbull

“a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making.”

Men Spirit Change Perfect Money Existence Liberty Deeper Active Making Money Fulfillment Integration Making Changes Deeper Meaning

Book:Mystics and Zen Masters

Source: Mystics and Zen Masters

“Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.”

Men Littles Joy Change Grace Cold Flow Wave Graves Comes And Goes Tranquil Ebb And Flow

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.”

Done Remember Change Principles Reform

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.”

“Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.”

Change Enemy Function Myth Ritual Legends Status Quo Coping Counterproductive

Book:Powers of the weak

Source: Powers of the weak

“If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.”

Ifs World Eye Change

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.”

Love Needs Values Change Lines Money Principles Society Economic Bottom Humanitarian Bottom Line Need A Change Love Of Money

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.”

Ifs Men May Causes Change Wise Revolution Fit Activity Normal Grades Discomfort Jerk

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one is dangerous and unreliable, while the other is relatively safe, directed, available.”

Giving Change Differences Dangerous Safe Transformation Available Accidents Lightning Lamps Illumination Unreliable

Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.”

Self Process Change Birth Authority Customs

Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.”

Different Change Shapes Branches

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.”

Change Inspire Reform

Author:Catherine the Great

“We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?”

Way Children Doe Stills Past Faces Father Force Social Change Behinds Eternity Our Children Shoulders Resistance One Way Why Not Status Quo Our Father Reluctant Stumbling Relics

Book:The Home

Source: The Home

“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”

Giving Ideas Change Imagination Creativity Wind Innovation Headache Wind Blowing

Author:Catherine the Great

“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.”

World Wells Body Past Change Differences Worry Learning Future Quiet Eternal Witness Stillness

Author:Robert Adams

“Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer.”

Ifs Life Needs Giving God Problem Wisdom Able Change Prayer Situation Courage Strength Praying Handle Release Changing Your Life Something Better Praying To God God Life

Author:Robert Adams

“Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.”

Thinking World Want Long Made Done Change Creatures Practicals Get Up Platforms Women Want

Book:Some everyday folk and dawn

Source: Some everyday folk and dawn

“Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.”

Ideas Self Opportunity Change Steps Watches Minutes Frozen Great Opportunity

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“suppose you invest time and effort in designing a new image for yourself. You get home and your husband takes one look and screams, 'Was the other person hurt? I see you've been in a head-on collision.' ... Men hate any change.”

Men Looks Persons Home Hate Change Hurt Effort Design Husband Appearance Scream Your Husband Collision

Book:Don't blame the mirror

Source: Don't blame the mirror

“anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.”

Spiritual Purpose Values Individual Change Loses Moral Movement Mass Activism Collectives Cult Crusades Spiritual Values

Author:Rosamond Lehmann

“A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.”

Has Beens Growth Change Break Progress

Book:The Mortal Storm

Source: The Mortal Storm

“People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.”

People Believe Change Trouble New Life

Book:Old Wine: A Novel

Source: Old Wine: A Novel

“Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]”

Stars Water Change Fire Changed

Author:Ludovico Ariosto

“The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.”

Mean Character Would Be Spirit Evil Change Wise Feet Changed Opposites This Life Good Life His Love After Death Angelic

Book:A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

Source: A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

“People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.”

People Change Awareness Surprise

Book:The brownstone house

Source: The brownstone house

“The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.”

Change Behinds Flower Routine Consistency Godly Imaginative Dense Fling

Book:I Pose

Source: I Pose

“Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.”

Change Source Conscious Built Entertainment Characteristics Repetition Novelty Discomfort Parts Of Life Monotony Positive Experiences

Book:With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

Source: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

“Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.”

People Fighting Waiting Change Rights Ten England Nine Germany

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.”

Ifs Change Wonderful Red Dresses Courageous Yellow

Author:Barbara De Angelis

“You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.”

Change

Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

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