Wise Quotes about Condemns

If a child lives with criticism,
he learns to condemn.
...
If a child lives with fear,
he learns to be apprehensive.
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If a child lives with encouragement,
he learns to be confident.
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If a child lives with acceptance,
he learns to love.
- Dorothy Law Nolte

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

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

It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all.
What is happening? What do you feel?
What do you see? What do you hear?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

Happiness lies in accepting everyone
in our lives EXACTLY as they are.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever
we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.
This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life change comes about in two complementary ways -
the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight;
and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors,
which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

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