Joseph Campbell Quotes

Don't fear change. It's always for the best.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

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.

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

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

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

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I may not understand it or accept it, but the world is changing.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I didn't know what was happening, how it was going to be, how it was all going to feel. As time went on it was great. Everything felt good so we decided to go with it.