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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs read more
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like read more
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. -John Steinbeck.
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
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Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
[Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco;
Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change read more
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is read more
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for read more
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh.