Dean Koontz Quotes

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

Change doesn't come from staying in your safe space.

If we can sacrifice something comfortable, that we're 'too good at,' that might even be holding us back, we'll have more room to grow into the person we want to be.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

Change takes courage.

I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.

Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.

People have to be pushed out of their comfort zones to be able to see things for what they are.

One of the things that 'Too Bright' refers to is how there's a lot of times where I see things that I could change that could make me more contented, but I usually just don't make those changes because they seem new and scary. I just stay where I'm at, even if I'm miserable, because I'm familiar with it.

When you're uncomfortable, that's when you learn something new about yourself.

I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.