Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.
~ Phyllis Mcginley
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
~ Golda Meir
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.
~ Samuel Butler
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
~ Jean Dubuffet
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.
~ Trina Paulus
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road turn back.
~ Turkish Proverb
Duration is not a test of true or false.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
~ Christian Bovee
If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.
~ Nancy Thayer
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.
~ Carlos Castañeda
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
~ Tennessee Williams
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
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.
~ Saint Catherine Of Siena
Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.
~ Carol Pearson
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
~ Bernice Johnson Reagon
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
It is best to learn as we go not go as we have learned.
~ Leslie Jeanne Sahler
Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
I will not change just to court popularity.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
~ Coco Chanel
Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.
~ Robert Moses
If you want to stand out don't be different be outstanding.
~ Meredith West
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.
~ Lady Astor
To change and to improve are two different things.
~ German Proverb
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.
~ Alice Meynell
We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.
~ Winston Churchill
All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
~ Irene Peter
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
~ Samuel Johnson
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
~ Learned Hand
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
~ William O. Douglas
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.
~ Henry B. Wilson
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
~ Mark Twain
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.
~ Louise Erdrich
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.
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.
~ José Ortega Y Gasset
