“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
As quoted in Life In the Open Sea (1972) by William M. Stephens, p. 21.
1970s and later
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Abraham Maslow34
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Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, to William Gerard Hamilton, to George Bernard Shaw, to John F. Kennedy (who at any rate quoted it) and to Edmund Burke, it was actually said by Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland in a speech in the House of Commons on 1641-11-22
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“If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Attributed to Edmund Burke, to William Gerard Hamilton, to George Bernard Shaw, to John F. Kennedy (who quoted it) and to Benjamin Disraeli, it was actually said by Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland in a speech in the House of Commons on 1641-11-22.
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Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) expressionist painter
Vol. 1: 'My beautiful One, My Unique!', pp. 130-140
1895 - 1905, Lettres à un Inconnu, 1901 – 1905; Museo Communale, Ascona
“One dream can change the development of a personality, and change his physical course.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Session 47
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2
Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time
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Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
A New Earth (2005)
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Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Les Loix du Mouvement et du Repos, déduites d'un Principe Métaphysique (1746)