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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

— Albert Einstein

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

— Lao Tzu

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

— Maya Angelou

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

— Confucius

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

— Leo Tolstoy

Try not to resist the changes that come your way.

— Rumi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

— Rumi

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.

— Dalai Lama

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

— Marcus Aurelius

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

— Winston Churchill

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

— George Bernard Shaw

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

— Socrates

I can't go back to yesterday — because I was a different person then.

— Lewis Carroll

Everything flows and nothing abides.

— Heraclitus

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the old, ring in the new.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Prayer does not change God; it changes the one who prays.

— Søren Kierkegaard

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

— C. S. Lewis

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

— Nelson Mandela

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

— Heraclitus

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