Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.
Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a harmony between the inner and the outward condition of human beings, and the progress of the one must keep pace with the progress of the other.
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.