God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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There is nothing in life, that is as certain as change. It is not easy to leave our comfort zone, because there is always something good and something bad accompanied with change. The question is how we deal with it, when the wind of change come to our house - do we close the doors or build wind mills?

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