Alan CohenIt takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
About This Quote
The quote above was written by Mike Nichols, the director of “The Graduate.” He was speaking about the desire to change, but not destroying what has already been done. To put it in a less philosophical way, let's think about it this way: if the world is changing, but we still keep acting like it’s the same world we've always lived in, we're setting ourselves up for failure. If we let our fears and assumptions go and try something new, we can experience new challenges and learn from them.
Some Similar Quotes
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
- The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
- Where there is love there is life.
- It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted....
More Quotes By Alan Cohen
- Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
- Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.
- Time reveals character.
- It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
- There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.