249 quotes found
“Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.”
“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 w...”
“New things cannot come where there is no room.”
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
“When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.”
“One must lose one's life in order to find it.”
“This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.”
“Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.”
“The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.”
“Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.”
“"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."”
“No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road turn back.”
“Duration is not a test of true or false.”
“It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.”
“If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
“It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.”
“Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.”
“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
“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 ...”
“Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.”
