#Change

Why Small Steps Make Growth Less Frightening

At first glance, Justin Welsh captures a tension nearly everyone recognizes: comfort feels safe precisely because it is familiar. Routine wraps itself around us like warmth, making even imperfect situations feel preferab...

Change as the Only True Security

At first glance, John Lilly’s statement sounds contradictory: security usually implies stability, while change suggests uncertainty. Yet his insight reverses that assumption by arguing that real safety does not come from...

How Perspective Changes What We Notice

Megan McKinzie’s line begins with a simple physical truth and expands it into a philosophical one: where we stand shapes what enters our field of vision. From one place, certain details appear obvious; from another, they...

Finding Direction Through the Winds of Change

At first glance, Mimi Novic’s line seems to praise passivity, yet it points to something more subtle: the wisdom of surrender. Rather than forcing life into a rigid plan, we sometimes discover our path only by loosening...

Adrienne Rich and the Poetry of Change

Adrienne Rich’s line suggests that poetry does not merely describe transformation; rather, transformation itself is the deepest poetic event. By calling “the moment of change” the only poem, she strips poetry down to its...

Steering Attention Through Life’s Uncontrollable Changes

At its core, this saying draws a sharp distinction between external events and inner agency. The ‘waves of change’ evoke the constant motion of life—loss, disruption, uncertainty, and surprise—none of which yield easily...

Why Painful Change Is Better Than Staying Stuck

Mandy Hale’s line frames pain not as a single experience, but as a comparison between two kinds of suffering. On one side is the pain of growth and change—the strain of leaving habits, roles, or relationships that once f...