Changing and Adjusting

“If you would like to change things in your life that seem too big to change all at once, could you be happy changing them a little at a time?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Any day we wish, we can start the process of life change.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
 
“It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.” -Henry F. Harrower
 
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” -Steve Jobs (Steven Paul ‘Steve’ Jobs (1955 - 2011))
 
“Never assume that you’re stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph S. Marston, Junior (born 1955)), author website www.GreatDay.com.
 
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978): as quoted in the “Christian Science Monitor” (1 June 1989)
 
“It’s never too late to change your life.” -Author Unknown
 
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
 
“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” -Herbert Ottl
 
“The greatest discovery of my age is that men can change their circumstances by changing the attitude of their mind.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
 
“The only thing certain is nothing is certain.” -Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
 
“Times will change for the better when you change.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
 
“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon . . . everything’s different.” -Bill Watterson (Bill Watterson II (born 1958)): “Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes”; type of work: cartoon
 
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” -Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa (1896 -1957)
 
“People can change until they take their last breath.” -Alton R. Jorgenson
 
“Change is the only thing that will make things different.” -Author Unknown
 
“Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.” -William Bridges (born 1934)
 
“If you want things to change, you have to change. If you want things to be better, you have to be better.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
 
“There is nothing permanent except change.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus (544 B.C.E. - 483 B.C.E.) (513 B.C.E.)
 
“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.” -Richard Hooker (1554 - 1600)
 
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890): “The Development of Christian Doctrine” (1834)
 
“The only thing constant in life is change.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld (François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680))
 
“Never be afraid to try something new - remember, it was amateurs who built the Ark and professionals who built the Titanic.” -Author Unknown
 
“Changes happen, and life gets worse and better, and life somehow goes on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
 
“Change before you have to.” -Jack Welch (John Francis ‘Jack’ Welch, Junior (born 1935))
 
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those opening a new road.” -Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778)): as quoted in Ben Ray Redman, editor: “The Portable Voltaire” (1949)
 
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948))
 
“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.” -Alvin Toffler (1928 - 2016)
 
“Only you can change your life. No one can do it for you.” -Author Unknown
 
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))
 
“Change is the only evidence of life.” -Evelyn Waugh (Arthur Evelyn Saint John Waugh (1903 - 1966))
 
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” -Henri Bergson (Henri-Louis ‘Henri’ Bergson (1859 - 1941))
 
To change one’s life:
Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly.
No exceptions.
-William James (1842 - 1910)
 
“Change is not difficult, it is the resistance to change that is difficult.” -Author Unknown
 
“The nature o’* things doesn’t change, though it seems as if one’s own life was nothing but change. The square o’ four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man’s miserable as when he’s happy; and the best o’ working is, it gives you a grip hold o’ things outside your own lot.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880)): “Adam Bede” (1859)
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“The more things change the more they are the same.” -Alphonse Karr (Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808 - 1890))
 
“Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
 
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.” -Gurdjieff (1873 - 1949)
 
Affirmation: I want to change my life.
 
“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
 
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” -John Cage (John Milton Cage, Junior (1912 - 1992))
 
“I guess some people never change. Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.” -Author Unknown
 
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” -Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))
 
“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” -Mandy Hale
 
“All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward!” -Author Unknown
 
“Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by those involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.” -Gerald Brenan (1894 - 1987)
 
“Old ways won’t open new doors.” -Author Unknown
 
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
 
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” -Okakura Kakuzō (Okakura Tenshin (1862 - 1913)): “The Book of Tea” (1906)
 
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” -Woodrow Wilson (Thomas Woodrow ‘Woodrow’ Wilson (1856 - 1924))
 
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978)
 
“Sometimes we must make a choice, to take a chance, or our lives will never change.” -Author Unknown
 
“We may dig in our heels and dare life never to change, but, all the same, it changes under our feet like sand under the feet of a sea gazer as the tide runs out. Life is forever undermining us. Life is forever washing away our castles, reminding us that they were, after all, only sand and sea water.” -Erica Jong (born 1942): “Parachutes and Kisses”
 
“Our only security is our ability to change.” -John Lyly (1554 - 1606)
 
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.” -Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
 
“Change is possible for everyone; consider the wolf, which preys upon sheep, and then examine the domestic dog derived from it, which protects sheep.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
 
“Change almost always represents improvement of the human condition. Constancy almost always represents stagnation. In any event, change is certain. There’s no point in complaining about it. Natural history teaches that survival in a changing world does not depend on physical strength or on high intelligence. Survival depends on the ability to change.” -Alex Sanders
 
Lucy: Do you think anybody ever really changes?
Linus: I’ve changed a lot in the last year.
Lucy: I mean for the better.
-Charles M. Schulz (Charles Monroe ‘Sparky’ Schulz (1922 - 2000)): “Peanuts” comic strip
 
“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.” -John Locke (1632 - 1704)
 
“All things are only transitory.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
 
“The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))
 
“Once you make the decision to change, all kinds of things happen.” -Charles S. Dutton
 
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
 
“Change is difficult but often essential to survival.” -Lester Louis Brown
 
“To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
 
“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
 
“In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.” -Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
 
“Be okay with where you are, even if you know you want to change.” -Author Unknown
 
“Change is inevitable. Because it is driven by expanding knowledge and technology, it is accelerating at a speed never seen before.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
 
“Change is inevitable . . . except from vending machines.” -Author Unknown
 
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “The Razor’s Edge” (1943)
 
“All is change; all yields its place and goes.” -Euripides (484 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
 
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” -Ed Foreman (born 1933)
 
“Turn over a new leaf.” -Thomas Dekker
 
“If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you want any part of your life changed, forget about what you’re going to do this year and begin with this moment.” -Author Unknown
 
“It only takes one person to change your life - you.” -Ruth Casey
 
“To the fearful, change is threatening because they worry that things may get worse. To the hopeful, change is encouraging because they feel things may get better.” -Buck Rogers
 
“Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): as quoted in Richard Shea, editor: “The Book of Success” (1993)
 
“Welcome change.” -Author Unknown
 
“There is yet time enough for you to take a different path.” -Author Unknown
 
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))
 
“Life is like an ever-changing kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.” -Sharon Salberg
 
“Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” -Author Unknown
 
“Someday change will be accepted as life itself.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
 
This is MFOL! . . . for everyone who is striving to be well-adjusted in an ever-changing world . . .