Is this what you saw? "Be the change you wish to see in the world."
It's usually attributed to Gandhi, but it's a misquote. Here's what he actually said: "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him....We need not wait to see what others do." Just happened to see a story about famous misquotes on Yahoo News, and this was among them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@...> wrote: > > Hmmmm, I didn't read it that way. Instead of feeling as a chosen one to > change the world, the expression says to me that if I want to change the > world, it is synonymous with changing myself, so that rather than being in > opposition to anything in the world, I change myself to come to terms with > it. The end goal is fully integrating myself with all of the world's actions, > vs. opposing the "bad" in the world and ticking off "victories" as my > opposition continues. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> wrote: > > > > > > Saw a bumper sticker yesterday that said something like, > > > become the change that you want in the world. Works for me. > > > > Sounds like "We are the ones we've been waiting for, we > > are the change that we seek," a line from one of Obama's > > campaign speeches.
