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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can read more
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, read more
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down.
That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light
Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons.
I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.
Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God
rules the stars.
[Lat., Tempora read more
Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God
rules the stars.
[Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.
Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus.]
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
Still ending, and beginning still.
Still ending, and beginning still.
Never swap horses crossing a stream.
Never swap horses crossing a stream.
Shrine of the mighty! can it be,
That this is all remains of thee?
Shrine of the mighty! can it be,
That this is all remains of thee?
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.