Words That Change Our Minds

BY ARLENE HARDER, MA, MFT

Explore a quotation, affirmation, fact, phrase or question that has caused you to change your mind.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

Change is the nursery of music, joy, life and eternity.

John Donne

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Gay Hendricks

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

© 1999, Revised 2002, Arlene Harder, MA, MFT

SHARING WORDS THAT CAUSED A PERSON TO CHANGE HER MIND

Questions may cause us to think about a topic in a whole new way. Quotations, facts and affirmations may also point us in a new direction and set the stage re-examining an opinion and realize there is a better way, or at least a different way, of looking at an issue.

What words — such as a quotation, affirmation, fact, phrase, or question — ;caused you to shift your perspective on an issue? Until you heard or read those particular words, you other words supported amother opinion or conclusion. What words have caused you to change your mind and what was it about those words that encouraged you to take a new look at an old opinion?

Send me your answer by sending an email with less than 400 words to comments@support4change.com. In the subject line write "Words That Changed My Mind."

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