Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
Interpretation
True happiness is found not in stagnation but in the constant movement and change of life.
This quote emphasizes that happiness should not be associated with a state of unchanging permanence, as such a state leads to stagnation and a lack of growth. Instead, it highlights that life, though often painful and full of challenges, is dynamic and that true fulfillment comes from embracing change and movement rather than seeking an impossible state of changelessness.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing lifeβs challenges.
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.
Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
You've got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.
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