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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the weaponry to make the difference.
• Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change
  he courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off....
• God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
  -- Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer (1934)...
• God grant me the senility to accept the things I cannot change, The frustration to try to change things I cannot affect, and the wisdom to tell the difference.
• Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.
• I cannot say whether things will get better if we change
  what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. -- G. C. Lichtenberg...
• Things do not change; we change. -- Henry David Thoreau
• How do we come to think of things, rather than of processes in this absolute flux?
  By shutting our eyes to the successive events. It is an artificial attitude that makes sections in the stream change, and calls them things....
• Other things may change, but we start and end with family. -- Anthony Brand