Every time we leave home and go to another place, we open up the possibility of having something wonderful happen to us. When we move out of the familiar here and now, we set in motion a series of events that, taken together, bring about changes at the very root of our being. *
~ Joseph Dispenza

Be the change you want to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Ghandi

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
~ Andy Warhol

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate; is strength undefeatable.
~Hellen Keller

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
~Shunryu Suzuki

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
~Mary Engelbreit

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

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
~Lesley P. Hartley

Change always comes bearing gifts.
~Price Pritchett

CHARACTER

Through our human endowments of self-awareness and conscience, we become conscious of areas of weakness, areas for improvement, areas of talent that could developed, areas that need to be changed or eliminated from our lives. Then, as we recognize and use our imagination and independent will to act on that awareness -making promises, setting goals, and being true to them- we build the strength of character, the being, that makes possible every other positive things in our lives.
~Stephen Covey

They can not take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
~Mahatma Ghandi

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

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
~Hellen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience and trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~Hellen Keller

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
~Charles Reade

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
~Frank Outlaw

CHEERFULNESS

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
~Joseph Addison

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
~Mark Twain

CHOICE

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -the freedom to choose. *
~Stephen Covey

Life is the sum of all your choices.
~Albert Camus

Happiness is a choice. Reach out for it at the moment it appears, like a balloon drifting seaward in a bright blue sky.
~Lara Adair

COURAGE

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. *
~T. S. Eliot

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
~Orison Swett Marden

The only way around is through.
~Robert Frost

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~Lao Tzu

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
~Seneca

COURTESY

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you
are. *
~Author unknown