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May you find great value in these Liberal quotes and sayings.
God reigns when we take a liberal view.
- Henry David Thoreau
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor
in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
- Henry David Thoreau
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power,
have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government,
and form a new one that suits them better.
This is a most valuable - a most sacred right -
a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
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 inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
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
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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)
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
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 you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
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
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
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
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
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- 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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
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
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
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
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
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
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
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