"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
—JH Newman
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." —JH Newman
“We don’t abandon our pursuits because we despair of ever perfecting them.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.2.37b
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
“To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.”
Maria Popova • How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Bernard Shaw
Emily Holdman • Deep Roots, Hard Looks, and Change — Permanent Equity: Investing in Companies that Care What Happens Next
We are changed, not by what we receive, but what we do.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Change indeed is one’s only hope if one is not the best to begin with, but a mere creature and then
Kathryn Tanner • Christ the Key (Current Issues in Theology Book 7)
“To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.”
— Tennessee Williams
~ Follow-up Question:
If change is essential to life, is there ever a point where one can say they have “arrived,” or is existence an endless process of becoming?
— Tennessee Williams
~ Follow-up Question:
If change is essential to life, is there ever a point where one can say they have “arrived,” or is existence an endless process of becoming?