A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. Principles of Biology, pt. All things must change to something new, to something strange. Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus The Conflict of Change Change means movement.
Movement means friction.
Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.