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Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 






Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 






With each heavy storm of rain
⁠Change comes o'er thy valley fair;
Once, alas! but not again
⁠Can the same stream hold thee e'er.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Dauer im Wechsel / 






The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
Alan Watts / 






Fortune only changes for those who do not know how to conform to their times.
Niccolo Machiavelli / 






Who knows? How odd and fickle is life ! How little is needed to ruin or rescue us !
Guy de Maupassant / 






There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Alphonse de Lamartine / 






The least movement affects all nature; the entire sea changes because of a rock.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






I am not what I once was.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus / 






Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature






I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
Henri Bergson






When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.
Paulo Coelho






It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
Isaac Asimov






Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
Ferdinand de Saussure - Course in General Linguistics / 






True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy






A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust






To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill






Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell / 






It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin / 






Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Niccolo Machiavelli






Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw






The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius






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