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 life’s 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.
By changing nothing, nothing changes.
When we uncovered the Hinkley case, there were so many other cases like it, and they're just catching up. And we're just starting to see the damage. I was hoping by now there would be more transparency and less defeat and cover-up. I haven't seen much of that change.
I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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