Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another, and constantly attend to it, and exercise yourself about this part of philosophy. For nothing is so much adapted to produce magnanimity.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

So does this misfortune prevent you in any way from being just, generous, sober, reasonable, careful, free from error, courteous, free, etc. – all of which together make human nature complete?

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

It is in no man’s power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn’t got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

All things are changing: and you yourself are in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction, and the whole universe, too.

In like manner view also the other epochs of time and of whole nations, and see how many after great efforts soon fell and were resolved into the elements.

If we try to adapt our mind to the regular sequence of changes and accept the inevitable with good grace, our life will proceed quite smoothly and harmoniously.

Don’t be disappointed if you return home with the very same set of ideas you arrived with. Because you had no intention of changing, correcting or adopting others in their place.

Before long, nature, which controls it all, will alter everything you see and use it as material for something else – over and over again. So that the world is continually renewed.

The world is maintained by change – in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.

How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

To change with change is the changeless state.

“We are the only ones who can make decisions for ourselves about how we will handle the situations that arise in our lives. Life is not likely to get any easier, but our approach to life can change and that will make it easier.” 

“There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.” 

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

“Nothing endures but change” 

“Everything changes and nothing stands still.” 

“there is nothing permanent except change--” 

“It is in changing that we find purpose.” 

“Nothing endures but change.” 

 “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”