"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
― Reinhold Niebuhr
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Change
More From Reinhold Niebuhr
- "If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God."
- "The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
- "Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
More In Change
- "I love that sense of change that you’d get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes."― Danny Boyle
- "The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history."― Dalai Lama
- "Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them."― Lee Haney