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    Anthony Lane
    “[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.”
    ― Anthony Lane
    tags: change, failure, learning
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    “The change most needed in our lives isn't change in our situations and relationships but in us. The thing God is most intent on rescuing us from is ourselves.”
    ― Timothy Lane, How People Change: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace, Leader's Guide
    tags: change, spiritual
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    “We are often at odds with our wise and loving Lord because the change he is working on is not the change we have dreamt about. We dream about change in it, while God is working in the midst of it to change us.”
    ― Timothy Lane, How People Change: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace, Leader's Guide
    tags: change, spiritual
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    “Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom.”
    ― Feroz Bham
    tags: blossom, change, leaf, life
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    Tom Giaquinto
    “Making this a better world happens one person at a time. You cannot force your beliefs on anyone. Rather, be the example that others can emulate. Live your life so that others may be inspired by your words and deeds. That's how change happens.”
    ― Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
    tags: belief, change, happiness, happy, inspirational
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    “Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.”
    ― Jon Scott
    tags: change, inspirational
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    Gala Darling
    “Know that change is always challenged! When you decide that you want to make a change, it is the way of the universe to throw obstacles in our way. It is like we are being tested to see how serious we really are about what it is we have said! See it for what it is, don't get discouraged & always keep going!”
    ― Gala Darling, Love and Sequins
    tags: change
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    “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”
    ― Tony Robbins
    tags: change, inspirational, pain, robbins, tony
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.”
    ― Shannon Alder
    tags: being-stuck, change, commitment, paraphrasing-narcotics-anonymous, purpose
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    Aberjhani
    “First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.”
    ― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
    tags: achieving-success, change, destiny-and-attitude, endurance, faith, inspirational, inspiring-quotes, making-progress, nanowrimo, national-novel-writing-month, new-year-quotes, perseverance, personal-empowerment, positive-attitude, positive-motivation, progress, strength-of-character, success-self-improvement
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    Eliezer Yudkowsky
    “Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!”
    ― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
    tags: change, improvements, inspirational
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    Orrin Woodward
    “Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.”
    ― Orrin Woodward
    tags: change, leaders
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    Thomas Hardy
    “There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
    tags: amelioration, change, inertia, influence, willpower
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, pain
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
    No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: hope, life, pain, strength, tragedy
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
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    Mark Twain
    “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: animals
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    Mark Twain
    “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven
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    Josh Billings
    “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
    ― Josh Billings
    tags: animals, dogs
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    “You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
    ― Paul McCartney
    tags: animals, beatles, character, man, vegetarianism
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
    For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: animals, dogs, humans
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    Dean Koontz
    “Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
    ― Dean Koontz, False Memory
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    Mark Twain
    “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven, inspirational, man, religion
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    Bill Watterson
    “You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.'

    'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.”
    ― Bill Watterson, Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"
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