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“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”
“Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
“Characteristic of our times are the concepts of complexity, growth and change.”
Source: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), p. 1
2010s
Source: Jonah Lehredec. " A Physicist Solves the City http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1," in www.nytimes.com. Dec 17, 2010.
“Absolutely, in fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.”
Democratic debate on CBS News, when Moderator John Dickerson asked if Sanders believed climate change was the greatest threat to national security http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/bernie-sanders-climate-change-greatest-security-threat-and-directly (14 November 2015)
2010s, 2015
“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
The Wave of the Future (1940)
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
“The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary.”
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 21
Context: The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
