Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

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

I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to go someplace safe, someplace I could be alone and okay, and that this was impossible. My old life had changed and my new one was still in progress, altering by the second. There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

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.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

The unknown is always scary.

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

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

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

I know I can't stay here forever

I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

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

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.

Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.