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Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘People don’t change.’ This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: ‘People don’t change.’ It says ‘don’t,’ not ‘can’t.’

Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit (via psychquotesss)

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Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride (via psychquotesss)

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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Jalaluddin Rumi (via psychquotesss)

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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti (via psychquotesss)

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden (via psychquotesss)

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein (via psychquotesss)

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (via psychquotesss)

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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via psychquotesss)

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.

Mahatma Gandhi (via psych2go)

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