"That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we 'know' to be present that causes us anxiety."

-- Robert Kegan

#Anxiety Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Half Quotes

“Who taught you to hate yourself?”
“When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.”
“We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina. If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?”
“Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment”
“Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.”
“And as I was looking at those towers that were destroyed in Lebanon, it occurred to me that we have to punish the transgressor with the same, and that we had to destroy the towers in America, so that they taste what we tasted and they stop killing our women and children.”
“Consumers want a better world, not just better widgets.”
“I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, - 2004 - Page 83, April 7, 1946.

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