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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James.

Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down. That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons. I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.

When you are through changing, you are through.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. -I. Krishnamurti.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.

The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.

Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye... -Corinthians.

It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. . -John Welwood.

Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -W.H. Murray.

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.