"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
—JH Newman
Luke Burgistwitter.com"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." —JH Newman
Winston Churchill notes that “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
Brian Portnoy • The Geometry of Wealth
one never arrives. The sage—the perfect Stoic who behaves perfectly in every situation—is an ideal, not an end.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
That’s what Stoicism is. It’s stretching. Training. To be better. To get better. To avoid one more mistake, to take one step closer toward that ideal. Not perfection, but progress—that’s what each of these lives was about.