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    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.

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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.

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Found in: Change Quotes,
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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]

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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

by Amelia Barr Found in: Change Quotes,
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to read more

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.

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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

by Ellen Glasgow Found in: Change Quotes,
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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.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

by William Drayton Found in: Change Quotes,
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found read more

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

by Washington Irving Found in: Change Quotes,
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None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, read more

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

by Kathleen Norris Found in: Change Quotes,
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