Spencer Johnson

The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.

He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists

What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation

I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.

when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there

Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese

Life moves on and so should we

things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one, of those times, Hem. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.

As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh at himself, let go and move on.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.