Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.

We tend to default to complacency. Stick to the easy option. We all do it. We've tried to create a business model and society around us that is as easy and boxed as possible. We love creating boundaries and borders.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

Give me one good reason why I should never make a change, baby if you hold me then all of this will go away.

Living based in security is living based in fear.

...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

To be honest," I halfwhispered, "I don't feel as safe with him as I do with you." "I know." A ghost of a smile touched my lips. "How do you know?" "Think about what safety is, Ella." "Trust?" "Yes, partly. But also an absence of risk." He unstuck a strand of hair from my damp cheek and tucked it back. "Maybe you need to take a risk. Maybe you need to be with someone who rattles you a little.

We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.