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“Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
“For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.”
“All things change nothing is extinguished.”
“Everything flows nothing stays still.”
“Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.”
“Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.”
“Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.”
“To live is to change and to be perfect is to change often.”
“When you're through changing you're through.”
“To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
“Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
“What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability!-Life in the making?”
“When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.”
“If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.”
“The healthy being craves an occasional wildness a jolt from normality a sharpening of the edge of appetite his own little festival of the Saturnalia a brief excursion from his way of life.”
“There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.”
“None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.”
“In embracing change entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.”
“Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.”
“Continuity gives us roots change gives us branches letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.”
