Growth and Change

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most". The real fear should be of the opposite course.

- Gail Sheehy -