Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

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?

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

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

Many people are so afraid of change.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

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

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

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

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

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

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?

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

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

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.