Progress and change

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Making use of what you’ve got

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

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There is no happiness in stagnancy

A magic dwells in each beginning,
protecting us, telling us how to live.

High purposed we shall traverse realm on realm,
cleaving to none as to a home, […]

only he who is ready to journey forth
can throw old habits off.

Hermann Hesse

This is an excerpt from a great poem called ‘steps’ which I can only recommend to read in its whole beauty.

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Changing your environment

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Wayne Dryer

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Change of plans

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation.

Maya Angelou

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Serenity, Courage and Wisdom

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Willpower and Change

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t… It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Expanding the comfort zone

To be fully alive, fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Pema Chödrön

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Take action!

Our grand business is not to see wat lies dimly at a distance, but to do wat lies clearly at hand.

Bruce Lee

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Altering your environment

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho

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