Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.
People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture...
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform.
The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.
Tradition was safety; change was danger.
I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
I think some people get just locked into 'this is the way it has to be,' and they're afraid of messing something up. I don't ever want to be that way with shooting or with anything, really - not just shooting.
Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.
Many people look upon change with dread and foreboding. But for those on the spiritual path-for those who believe in God and the power of prayer-change is a fuller expression of life. When a problem or condition arises in your life that indicates a change, rely upon God, and realize that it is not so much that a door has closed on a chapter of your life, but rather that a door has opened on new and more interesting things.
All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
What is the point of me changing? If I became another person, it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends, they would not be happy. It's important I stay the same.
I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.
Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.
I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing of the familiar suddenly becomes real comforting.
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite.
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'
