Quotes About Career Change

Rumi

I've lived on the lip of insanity wanting to know reasons, knocking on the door, it opens. I've been knocking from the inside! ~Rumi

Albert Einstein

How strange is the lot of us mortals. Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. ~Albert Einstein

Rumi

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone. ~Rumi

Hayden White

"We aren't rooted in some authentic past. We can make out of ourselves something new, something not beholden to someone else’s idea of who we really are and where we had really come from. We could remake the meanings of our pasts, paradoxically, by seizing opportunities to create our futures.” ~Hayden White

Mark Twain

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~Mark Twain

George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one: being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw

Richard Pinhas

"Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life." ~Richard Pinhas

Betty Friedan

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, be we knew it had to be done. ~Betty Friedan (pioneer of the Women's Movement)

Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ~Mark Twain

Rumi

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: He's free. ~Rumi, poet born 1207 in Balkh (what is now Afghanistan)