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The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything.  Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences…The world doesn’t fear a new idea.  It can pigeon-hole any idea.  But it can’t pigeon-hole a real new experience. D.H. Lawrence

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion. Mason Cooley

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster. Rosabeth Moss Cantor

When things reach maturity, they decay of themselves. Lao Tzu

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you…Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. Florida Scott-Maxwell

To understand things we must have been once in them and then have come out of them; so that first there must be captivity and then deliverance, illusion followed by disillusion, enthusiasm by disappointment. He who is still under the spell and he who has never felt the spell are equally incompetent. Henri Frédéric Amiel

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. Johanna Field

There are no signposts in the sea. Vita Sackville-West

It’s a paradox:  To achieve continuity, we have to be willing to change. Change is, in fact, the only way to protect whatever exists. William Bridges

He who lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. William Shakespeare

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Most people do not resist change. What we resist is transition. Change is a situational shift. Transition, on the other hand, is the process of letting go of the way things used to be and then taking hold of the way they subsequently become. In between the letting go and the taking hold again, there is a chaotic but potentially creative “neutral zone” when things aren’t the old way, but aren’t really a new way yet either. William Bridges

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood. Henry Miller

There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. Anonymous

The door into life generally opens behind us, and a hand is put forth which draws us in backwards. George MacDonald

Every beginning is a consequence—every beginning ends something. Paul Valery

It is not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear…It’s like being in between trapezes.  It’s Linus when his blanket is in the dryer.  There’s nothing to hold on to. Marilyn Ferguson

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. Frederick Wilcox

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. Jean Luc Godard

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