The wheel of change moves on, and those who were
down go up and those who were up go down.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
*
Change
will not come if we wait for some other person
or some other time. We are the ones we've been
waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
-- Barack Obama
For
the sake of our security, our economy and our
planet, we must have the courage and commitment
to change. -- Barack
Obama
*
Nothing
can stand in the way of the power of millions
of voices calling for change.
-- Barack Obama
*
Change
will not come if we wait for some other person or
some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting
for. We are the change that we seek.
-- Barack Obama
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means
that you do the things that need to be done
according to priority.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change
your life forever.”
--Keri Russell
*Ordinary
people like you and me have the chance to make
a tremendous difference for mothers and their
children worldwide
-- Meg Ryan
“People
are always telling me that change is good. But
all that means is that something you didn't want
to happen has happened.”
-- Meg Ryan
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought
will never be able to change reality.
-- Anwar Sadat
We
are capable of regaining our reverence for life,
of replacing the drive to conquer with the will
to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions,
including our corporations, into living systems.
-- Elisabet
Sahtouris
*
Look
at situations as contingent, not as inevitable,
look at them as the result of a series of historical
choices made by men and women, as facts of society
made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given,
therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.
--Edward Said
The
only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor;
he takes my measurements anew each time he sees
me. The rest go on with their old measurements
and expect me to fit them.
-- George Bernard
Shaw
Progress
is impossible without change, and those who cannot
change their minds cannot change anything.
-- George Bernard
Shaw
We
can change the system by helping people see that
there really is a movement for a better world
emerging all around us.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
Learning
to see the difference between things that we can
change and things that we can't, is the first
step to letting go and freeing ourselves from
the burdens of guilt, regret and anger.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
The
world is a dangerous place. But if we chose not
to let fear control our lives, and instead stood
up and worked together to change the way things
are, this would be a much better world for everyone.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
“Only
the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent
can resist change.”
-- Socrates
*
Each
of us has the ability to act powerfully for change;
together we can restore that ancient and sustaining
harmony.
-- David Suzuki
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