CURATED COLLECTION

Embracing Change

The things we cling to are often the things that are keeping us stuck — on learning to move with life.

50 quotes found

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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

—Angela DavisActivist & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • North America

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Hope is not the conviction that things will go well, but that they are worth doing.

—Václav HavelPlaywright, Essayist & President

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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The world is a mirror, reflecting what you are. If you dislike what you see, change yourself.

—JamiPoet & Scholar

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

—Oscar WildePlaywright & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

—Lao TzuPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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Part of the challenge of being an artist is to make things fresh and relevant.

—Kehinde WileyArtist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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All things are in motion like a river.

—HeraclitusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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We must believe in ourselves, and believe that we have the power to change things.

—Dorothy HeightActivist & King

Contemporary ERA • North America

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Change is difficult and change is what also creates opportunity.

—Mohsin HamidNovelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfilment.

—Milan KunderaNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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The Way changes and transforms; its changes are without limit.

—I ChingAuthor & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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Stories are like living organisms. They move through the world, adapting, changing.

—Olga TokarczukNovelist & Essayist

Digital Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

—Ruth Bader GinsburgLawyer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. Why should I?

—Bob MarleyMusician

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

—Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoet & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

—Carl JungPsychiatrist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Life flows like a river, ever changing, washing away the old, bringing in the new.

—Boris PilnyakNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

—Desmond TutuTheologian

Post-War ERA • Southern Africa

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First winter rain, the world and I are young.

—Matsuo BashoPoet

Renaissance ERA • East Asia

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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

—EuripidesScholar & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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