Rakim Quotes

willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

Change is very scary.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.

Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

I don't know what's on the other side.

The one thing we know about the future is that it will not be like today. I don't think that people should be too anxious about not knowing what they are going to do in the future, because we really can't know.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.