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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
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  • #4
    C. JoyBell C.
    “The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: change, growth, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, life-lessons
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  • #5
    Barack Obama
    “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: change, inspirational
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: change, changes, courage, encouragement, exploration, growing, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life-and-living, self-discovery
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    Walter Mosley
    “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
    ― Walter Mosley, Blue Light
    tags: change, growth
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  • #8
    Katharine Hepburn
    “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
    tags: change, life, self
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  • #9
    Mother Teresa
    “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: change, community, incrementalism, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world, yourself
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  • #10
    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
    tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement
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  • #11
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: act, action, change, criticize, doing, dream, dreams, encouragement, experience, feeling, giving, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, listening, living, optimism, optimistic, ponder, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thinking, transform
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  • #12
    Veronica Roth
    “Change, like healing, takes time.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: change, healing, tobias-eaton
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  • #13
    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Ovid
    “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
    ― Ovid
    tags: activism, change, inspirational, perseverance
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: change, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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  • #16
    Sarah Ockler
    “I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works.”
    ― Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah
    tags: change, insightful
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: change, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Acts of Kindness:
    A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, kind, kindness, life, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
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  • #20
    Ogwo David Emenike
    “If we ask the right questions, we can change the world with the right answers.”
    ― Ogwo David Emenike
    tags: betterment, business, change, economy, improvement, influence, inspirational, motivational, right-answer, right-question, science, success
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  • #21
    “A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an everyday principle among the citizens of the nation.”
    ― Sunday Adelaja
    tags: change, citizen, develop-truth, honesty, transform
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  • #22
    “Every major outward change must first begin in the mind.”
    ― Sunday Adelaja
    tags: change, mind
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  • #23
    “It is only when we are ready to give up on some things in our lives that we could receive new things.”
    ― Sunday Adelaja
    tags: are, could, give, is, it, lives, new, only, ready, receive, some, things, up, we, when
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    Elie Wiesel
    “We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
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    Elie Wiesel
    “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
    ― Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident
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  • #26
    Simone Weil
    “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
    ― Simone Weil
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  • #27
    Simone Weil
    “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
    ― Simone Weil
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    Simone Weil
    “Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”
    ― Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy
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  • #29
    Simone Weil
    “We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”
    ― Simone Weil
    tags: accountability, courage, honesty, inspiration, status-quo, truth
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  • #30
    Simone Weil
    “True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.”
    ― Simone Weil
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