The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
- Topic: Change, Perception, Vacation
- Location: Cinnabar Mountain, Montana
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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.
I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
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.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
