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“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life.”

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.”

“Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it”

“Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”

“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

“Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.”

“Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.”

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”

“Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!”

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”