Quote of the Day -- Neil Gaiman

I hope in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.

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Neil Gaiman (1960 - ) is a prolific English author who spans multiple genres. His work is on my TBR.

Quote of the Day -- Gail Sheehy

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. 

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. 

As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course."

-- Gail Sheehy

Quote of the Day -- Laozi

Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

-- Laozi

Quote of the Day -- Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

-- Charles Darwin

Quote of the Day -- James Clear

 Broad ideas influence more people. 

Specific ideas influence people more.

-- James Clear

Quote of the Day -- Dorothy Day

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. 

-- Dorothy Day

Quote of the Day -- Louis Brandeis

If we desire respect for the law we must first make the law respectable.

 -- Louis Brandeis

Quote of the Day -- Clara Barton

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

-- Clara Barton

Quote of the Day -- Alfred North Whitehead

The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. 

-- Alfred North Whitehead

Quote of the Day -- Anthony de Mello

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change. 

-- Anthony de Mello

Quote of the Day -- Joan Wallach Scott

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. 

-- Joan Wallach Scott

Quote of the Day -- George Christoph Lichtenberg

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better. 

-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quote of the Day -- Leon Megginson

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. 

-- Leon Megginson

Quote of the Day -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? 

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day -- Elizabeth Taylor

If we do not alter with the times, the times yet alter us. We may stand perfectly still, but our surroundings shift round and we are not in the same relationship to them for long; just as a chameleon, matching perfectly the greenness of a leaf, should know that the leaf will one day fade. 

-- Elizabeth Taylor

Quote of the Day -- Jane Goodall

My job now is to try and help people understand every one of us makes a difference. And cumulatively, wise choices in how we act each day can begin to change the world.   

-- Jane Goodall

Quote of the Day -- Jane Goodall

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

-- Jane Goodall

Quote of the Day -- Maya Angelou

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

-- Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day -- Leo Tolstoy

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. 

-- Leo Tolstoy

Quote of the Day -- Lewis Carroll

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

-- Lewis Carroll