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    One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people\'s minds.

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The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or read more

The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

by C.s. Lewis Found in: Change Quotes,
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

by Woodrow Wilson Found in: Change Quotes,
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, read more

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Change alone is unchanging.

by Heraclitus Found in: Change Quotes,
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We change, whether we like it or not

We change, whether we like it or not

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Change Quotes,
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It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense read more

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

by Leo Tolstoy Found in: Change Quotes,
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It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that read more

It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.

by Gwyneth Paltrow Found in: Change Quotes,
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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]

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We must become the change we want to see.

We must become the change we want to see.

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