Liberal Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor
in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
- Henry David Thoreau

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power,
have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government,
and form a new one that suits them better.
This is a most valuable - a most sacred right -
a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- Abraham Lincoln

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

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 (Serenity Prayer)

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

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