Up: [[The In-Between Times]] > [!Orbit] Haruki Murakami in *Kafka on the Shore* > When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about. > [!Orbit] Peter Bergman in *Point B: A short guide to leading a big change* > Any small change you ask other people to make is a big change. (p. 115) > [!Orbit] Po Bronson in *What Should I Do with My Life?* > I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause. It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice. (p. xv) > [!Orbit] Joan Anderson in *The Second Journey* > Befriend the person you are striving to become. > [!Orbit] [[Lewis Carroll]] in *Alice in Wonderland* > ... it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. > [!Orbit] Nelson Mandela > There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. > [!Orbit] Roland Barth > Nothing ventured, something lost. > [!Orbit] Tuli Kupferberg > When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. > [!orbit] [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] > And now let us welcome the New Year > Full of things that have never been. > [!Orbit] [[Marion Woodman]] > Change means change. We may have all the insights, but if we do not incarnate them, they are all in vain. > [!Orbit] Zora Neale Hurston > There are years that question and years that answer. > [!Orbit] Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop > You can't change the world from the rearview mirror. > [!Orbit] W.H. Auden > We would rather be ruined than changed; > We would rather die in our dread > Than climb the cross of the moment > And let our illusions die. > [!Orbit] [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] - I Choose to Begin in *A Year With Rilke* > I love all beginnings, despite their anxiousness and their uncertainty, which belong to every commencement. If I have earned a pleasure or a reward, or if I wish that something had not happened; if I doubt the worth of an experience and remain in my past — then I choose to begin at this very second. > Begin what? I begin. I have already thus begun a thousand lives. (Early Journals, Jan.1 entry) > [!orbit] Meister Eckhart > And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings. > [!Orbit] Heraclitus > Everything flows and nothing stays… You can’t step into the same river twice.