Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.  But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it.  Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.  ~Shunryu Suzuki

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.  ~Joan Wallach ScottHistory in Crisis? The Others’ Side of the Story, American Historical Review, June 1989; sh

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit

Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.  ~Irene Peter

What can we take on trust
in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness,
pride – nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
~Euripides, HecubaWLBUQ

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.  ~Japanese Proverb

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.  ~Anatole France

Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
Tomorrow be today.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Change always comes bearing gifts.  ~Price Pritchett, from a 2001 Franklin Covey business card

Our only security is our ability to change.  ~John LillyFD

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.  ~Henri Bergson

Stubborness does have its helpful features.  You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.  ~Glen Beaman

Every beginning is a consequence – every beginning ends some thing.  ~Paul Valery

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.  ~William H. SewardCUL

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation:  If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.  ~Author UnknownFELI

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.  ~Francis Bacon, "On Innovation," Essays, 1597SS

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.  ~Woodrow WilsonCUL

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.  ~Pauline R. KezerPIH

We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
~W.H. Auden

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril.  ~Laurens van der Post

If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change.  If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.  ~John A. Simone, Sr.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.  ~Michel MontaigneCAM

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.  ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Charles Darwin

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.  ~Harrison Ford

When you are through changing, you are through.  ~Bruce Barton

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.  ~Denis Waitley

People don’t change.  Only their costumes do.  ~Gene MooreOPV

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.  ~Ellen Glasgow

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

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.  ~Confucius, AnalectsLCD

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.  ~William BlakeCUL

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.  ~John Steinbeck, America and Americans

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world.  Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.  ~Saigyo