Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.

You never came out the way you came in.

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

There are two options: adapt or die.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

When I returned, everything was different. Everything was calm, and I felt very clean. Everything was in order. Everything was as it should be. I had a secret. It was a guilty secret, certainly. But it was MY secret. I had something to hold on to. It was company. It kept me calm. It filled me up and emptied me out.

The more things change, the more they stay different.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.