About
This is not your typical handbook; rather, it is a humorous narrative that will put everything into perspective. You’re in a maze, and a chunk of cheese is in front of you. Your life is the maze, and the prize is the cheese, but there’s a catch: you have to chase it all the time. “Who Moved My Cheese?” is a change fable set in a Maze where four people search for “Cheese”—cheese is a metaphor for what we seek in life.
The story’s four fictitious characters—the mice “Sniff” and “Scurry,” and the Little people “Hem” and “Haw”—are meant to reflect the basic and complicated portions of ourselves. This narrative, like life, puts into perspective the difficulties we must overcome in order to achieve our objectives.
Notable quotes
- “Life moves on and so should we”
- “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”
- “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.”
- “See what you’re doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better.”
- “The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.”
- “When you stop being afraid you feel good”
- “If you do not change, you can become extinct !”
- “It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation”
- “He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don’t do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.”
- “The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists”
- “Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheese-less situation .”
- “Movement in a new direction helps find new cheese.”
- “Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.”
- “He asked himself those same questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was”
- “Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That’s life! Life moves on. And so should we.”
- “The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.”
- “I guess we resist changing because we are afraid of change.”
- “It all depends on what you choose to believe.”
- “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.”
- “I guess the question is, ‘What do we need to let go of and what do we need to move on to?’” No.”