Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.
I've learned only that you never say never.
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.
The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place.
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
We change, whether we like it or not.
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
All is change; all yields its place and goes.
O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
All things change, nothing is extinguished.
Life is always at some turning point.
