If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
Interpretation
To maintain the current state of affairs, we must embrace change.
This quote suggests that stagnation is not an option; if we desire continuity in our lives or circumstances, we must be willing to adapt and modify our actions and approaches. It highlights the paradoxical nature of stability, implying that true consistency can only be achieved through proactive change.
In practice
In a discussion about innovation and progress in a company meeting.
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.
If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.
There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.
When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.
What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.
And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.
You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!
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