When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
- Topic: Change, Self
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.
This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.
In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.