Liberal Quotes

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau

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God reigns when we take a liberal view.
- Henry David Thoreau

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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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead

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

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

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett

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

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

When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown

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

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

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

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)

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

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

Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen

We must be the change we wish to see.
- 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

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson

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

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

If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho

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

I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie

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

I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado

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

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

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

When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking

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

Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie