This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
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Helena Blavatsky, aka Helena Petrovna "H.P." Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn
Annihilation means, with the Buddhistical philosophy, only a dispersion of matter, in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish, i.e., change that shape; therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent, it is but an illusion, Maya; for, as eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lightning. Before we have the time to realize that we have seen it, it is gone and passed away for ever; hence, even our astral bodies, pure ether, are but illusions of matter, so long as they retain their terrestrial outline. The latter changes, says the Buddhist, according to the merits or demerits of the person during his lifetime, and this is metempsychosis. When the spiritual entity breaks loose for ever from every particle of matter, then only it enters upon the eternal and unchangeable Nirvana. He exists in spirit, in nothing; as a form, a shape, a semblance, he is completely annihilated, and thus will die no more, for spirit alone is no Maya, but the only REALITY in an illusionary universe of ever-passing forms.
Beginning | Change | Eternal | Eternity | Reality | Spirit | Time | Universe | Will |
Ludwig Wittgenstein, fully Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
M. Scott Peck, fully Morgan Scott Peck
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
Battle | Change | Evil | Good | Heart | History | Individual | Mind | Soul |
Lucretius, fully Titus Lucretius Carus NULL
Whenever a thing changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, born Mahesh Prasad Varma
We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.
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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret J. Wheatley, aka Meg Wheatley
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
Madonna Kolbenschlag, fully Madonna Claire Kolbenschlag
People do not change because of intellectual convictions or ethical inclinations, but rather through transformed imaginations.
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Marcel Proust, fully Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
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Margaret J. Wheatley, aka Meg Wheatley
Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what's possible. This is good news for those of us intent on creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections. We don't need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits. Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage and commitment that lead to broad-based change.
Cause | Change | Commitment | Courage | Good | Need | News | People | Vision | Will | Work | World | Worry |
Margaret Thatcher, fully Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, née Roberts
Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.
Change | Man | Opinion | Public | Reason | Right | Service |
It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Every part of me will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on, forever. And by consequence of such a change, I too exist, and those who begot me, and so on forever in the other direction.
Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is in time. How is time exhibited in this way of encountering it, namely, as that within which things change? Does it here give itself as itself in what it is? Can an axplacation of time starts here guarantee that time will thereby provide as it were the fundamental phenomena that determine it in its own being?
Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Baker
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.
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives
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