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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 read more
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.
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.
No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on
this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another read more
No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on
this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his
mind.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta
sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't read more
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Things do not change, we do.
Things do not change, we do.
