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What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Self Perspective
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow 
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
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The ability to be in the present moment
is a major component of mental wellness.
- Abraham Maslow
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
Faith is the great affirmative power that
says "yes" to the infinite goodness of life -
regardless of appearances. We all have within us
the potential for mountain-moving faith,
but we must take the steps necessary to activate it.
- Mary Omwake
It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
War may sometimes be a necessary evil.
But no matter how necessary,
it is always an evil, never a good.
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation,
which are as necessary as reading.
I will rather say more necessary
because health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show
by what road it will pass to destruction,
to wit: by consolidation of power first,
and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Thomas Jefferson
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Thomas Jefferson
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Having seen the devastation of war first hand,
Eisenhower came both to despise war
and to see that "war settles nothing."
On the other hand, Ike was certainly no peacenik.
He understood that, in an emergency,
action must be met with reaction.
When truly necessary, violence met with violence -
but never hate responded to with hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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)
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
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
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
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
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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