Lincoln Steffens Quotes

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

I may not understand it or accept it, but the world is changing.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Life is a work in progress.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

There is nothing permanent except change.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.

Stability is not the way of the world.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Nothing endures but change.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

Movement isn't progress.

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.