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As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look. ”
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. ”
I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions. ”
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. ”
If you start thinking of stress as not a bad thing but inevitable, resulting in change that itself leads to transformation that leads to sharp and radical changes... it can be a very useful way of thinking. ”
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. ”
The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over. ”
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall. ”
Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear. ”
Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you. ”