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People don't change. Only their costumes do. ~Gene Moore

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author Unknown

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. ~Harrison Ford

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times. ~Michel Montaigne

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ~Kurt Lewin

Things do not change; we change. ~Henry David Thoreau

Our only security is our ability to change. ~John Lilly

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. ~Bertold Brecht

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ~Francis Bacon, "On Innovation," Essays, 1597

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. ~Francis Bacon

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. ~Confucius, Analects

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicates nothing but the changeableness of the weather. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~Stanislaw Lec

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. ~George Bernard Shaw