You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.Īll of us, every single year, we’re a different person. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. We did not change as we grew older we just became more clearly ourselves. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.Ĭonsider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
After five years, look at it with suspicion. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.Īfter you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.Ĭhange is the law of life. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says “turn back.” Erica Jong I have accepted fear as part of life, specifically the fear of change. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.Įveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
There is nothing permanent except change. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.Ĭhange is the only constant. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
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