Yep, that was the one, and it *was* attributed to Gandhi, written in that
calligraphy style of brown characters on parchment white that is meant to
denote individual artistic effort vs. cold, mass-produced thought - lol.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
