~ Creating Positive Change Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Luther Burbank

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?

Michel de Montaigne

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank not as a prophet but as an unteachable brat well birched and none the wiser.

Robert Louis Stevenson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

Anais Nin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly completely successfully or just completely the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Julie Burchill

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic living use.

Anais Nin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves 'What will happen if ... ?' or better still 'How can we make it happen?'

Lisa Taylor

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas beliefs habits even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to do something.

Inga Teekens

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

John Dewey

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

Donald M. Nelson