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Things do not change; we change.
Things do not change; we change.
 Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
 Like the wave;
  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength read more 
 Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
 Like the wave;
  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
   Love tends life a little grace,
    A few sad smiles; and then,
     Both are laid in one cold place,
      In the grave. 
 Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
 [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]  
 Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
 [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.] 
 It snows at sea.. quiet.... falls in flakes * melting designs**
leave form for All.  
 It snows at sea.. quiet.... falls in flakes * melting designs**
leave form for All. 
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for read more
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered read more
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.