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By Unknown Monk, 1100 A.D.

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.

I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.

When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.

Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.”

Food For Thought:

“After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. ” Alfred Edward Perlman
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” Anatole France

“Growth is the only evidence of life.” John Henry Newman

“If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.” Author Unknown

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Victor Frankl

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“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat”
It’s funny how this little change can really benefit the community.

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“People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.”- Actor and Author of Michael Josephson, Radio Commentator

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