Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. ~Bertold Brecht
Things do not change; we change. ~Henry David Thoreau
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. ~Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ~Ellen Glasgow
