Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Knowing why you're doing things does not automatically mean that you know how to change them. If you really want change, worry less about the why and concentrate more on the how. It is often easier and faster for us to change from the outside than to change from the inside.

It Doesn't Matter Where You Came From. All That Matters Is Where You Are Going

Resolve to be a master of change rather than being the victim of change

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.

Tuttu tunne: sitä haluaa takertua menneeseen ja olla samanlainen kuin aina ennenkin, koska eteenpäin siirtyminen on liian pelottavaa.

Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves.

It is very difficult to evolve by altering the deep fabric of life; any change there is likely to be lethal. But fundamental change can be accomplished by the addition of new systems on top of old ones…Thus evolution by addition and the functional preservation of the preexisting structure must occur for one of two reasons-either the old function is required as well as the new one, or there is no way of bypassing the old system that is consistent with survival.

Taken together, the dramatic societal shifts — often in ten generations or less — provide a compelling refutation of the claim that we are condemned, without hope of reprieve, to live out our lives in a barely disguised chimpanzee social order.