Change means the unknown.
Change is what people fear most.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.
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?
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
The more things change the more they remain the same.
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.
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
Old habits are strong and jealous.
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
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.
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.
Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
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 pr...
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