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~ I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change. ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. ~ ~ Abuse changes your life...Fight Back and change the life of your abusers by Breaking Your Silence on Abuse! ~ ~ Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. ~ ~ Assassination has never changed the history of the world. ~ ~ Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. ~ ~ You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ~ ~ When you blame others, you give up your power to change. ~ ~ If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. ~ ~ Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. ~ ~ Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. ~ ~ If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! ~ ~ A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions. ~ ~ Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ ~ But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood ~ ~ Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine ~ ~ We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ~ ~ Wisdom understands that in a world of ecological interconnectedness there is no such things as ìaway.î We donít throw things ìaway,î we simply put them someplace where they defile the land, foul the water, pollute the air or change the earthís atmosphere ~ ~ If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~ ~ The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change ~ ~ A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.† ~ ~ Change of weather is the discourse of fools. ~ ~ Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect ~ ~ "It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change." ~ ~ ... the spring, the summer,
The chilling autumn, angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world
By their increase, now knows not which is which. ~ ~ Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by the regular contact with outdoor growths -- animals, trees, sun warmth, and free skies -- or it will dwindle and pale. ~ ~ Laws change; people die; the land remains. ~ ~ I settled at Cold Mountain long ago,
Already it seems like years and years.
Freely drifting, I prowl the woods and streams
And linger watching things themselves.
Men don't get this far into the mountains,
White clouds gather and billow.
Thin grass does for a mattress,
The blue sky makes a good quilt.
Happy with a stone under head,
Let heaven and earth go about their changes. ~ ~ I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. ~ |
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