Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

They all overvalued the importance of stability.

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.

One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

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

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.