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We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. |
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.- Charles R. Swindoll
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I would not do it, I would not behave his way anymore. I am lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.
People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.
Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and would not do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
