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    We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.

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The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. read more

The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. . -John Welwood.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

by Nathaniel Branden Found in: Change Quotes,
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The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is read more

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.

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We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue.
[Fr., On commence par etre dupe,
On read more

We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue.
[Fr., On commence par etre dupe,
On finit par etre fripon.]

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Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.

Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.

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Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

by Jawaharlal Nehru Found in: Change Quotes,
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It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.

It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.

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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
[Lat., read more

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
[Lat., Nihil est aptius delectationem lectoris quam temporum
varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines.]

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to read more

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.

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