OpEdNews - Page 7 of Article: Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change?

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change, what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
G. C. Lichtenberg

JOURNEY,
One must lose one's life in order to find it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There are no birds in last year's nest.
Longefellow, It Is Not Always May

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. vi

Someday change will be accested as life itself.
Shirley MacLaine

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.
Karl Marx

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer

They have only stepped back in order to leap farther.
Montaigne

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Langbridge Morgan

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
Blaise Pascal

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.
Prince Phillip of England

All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.
Marcel Proust

SYMPTOM SUBSTITUTION, CONVERSION
"There are relapses in the distempers of the soul, as in those of the body: What we take for a cure, is most commonly nothing but an abatement, or a change of disease."
\193 La Rochefoucauld

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

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