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Change before you have to.
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.
Freedom
If we live near a train station, it completely changes our lives. We get the impression that we are passing through. Nothing is definite. In either day, we ended up boarding a train.
La Petite Bijou
Be the change you wish to be.
Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint
Change is not progress
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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