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The Commonplace Book

A Digital Florilegium

§ On Change

The only permanence is impermanence

"The only constant in life is change."

— Heraclitus

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

— John F. Kennedy

"Nothing endures but change."

— Heraclitus

"All great changes are preceded by chaos."

— Deepak Chopra

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

— Socrates

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Change before you have to."

— Jack Welch

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

— Andy Warhol

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

— Viktor E. Frankl

"Things do not change; we change."

— Henry David Thoreau

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."

— Woodrow Wilson

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

— Stephen Hawking

✎ Motion is not the same as progress.

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