~ Creating Positive Change Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Erica Jong

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

James Lane Allen

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice.

Mark Twain

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

William O. Douglas

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Today is not yesterday; how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.

Thomas Carlyle

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

John Caldwell Calhoun

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Margery Allingham

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Johnson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

Anatole France

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.

Alfred Edward Perlman

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

Jean Dubuffet

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.

Simone de Beauvoir

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Learned Hand

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.

Will Garcia