If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
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.