None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
Change Quotes
Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too.
“Change” has a warm, vernal sound at age twenty-two. Then comes a day when all the word brings to mind is “any change in a wart or mole… “
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people’s lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.
All things change; nothing perishes.
So longstanding and so rapid have been these processes of change that expectation of change and anxiety about change have been built into our character as a people.
There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
To stand still is to lose, To move is to gain, To change is to grow.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
