"You can’t change the music of your soul."
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"Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change"
"Don't be so glued to what you planned that you can't change it."
"You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own."
"The things I can't change are the reasons you'll love me"
"I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me."
"Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it."
"The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so."
"A person can't change all at once."
"I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it."
"You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them."
"We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now."