#change

Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers — and this ability is the secret of their power and of their

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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

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Accept death in a cheerful spirit, as nothing but the dissolution of the elements from which each living thing is composed.

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There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully

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The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea

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Philosophy is still moving too much in a straight line; it’s not yet cyclical enough.

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The same thing is both living and dead, and the waking and the sleeping, and young and old; for these things transformed

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Everything that comes to be has some beginning, but what is eternal, being ungenerated did not have a beginning. But if it

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Man is such a conservative creature that any change, even a change for the better, scares him, he prefers the bad old way to

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Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be

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When our ideas on any subject, material, intellectual, or social, undergo a thorough change in consequence of new observations,...

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The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs.

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Those who long for the triumph of justice, those who would put new ideas into practice, are soon forced to recognize that

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Ages are no more infallible than individuals; every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not

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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The

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Growth always happens smaller and slower than we think it will; but those baby steps add up, and then one day you look back

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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As you are shifting, you will begin to realize that you are not the same person you used to be. The things you used to

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Reason contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are ...

When things change inside you, things change around you.

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