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My favorite I learned in Alcoholics Anonymous:

There is pain in change; there is pain in staying the same. Choose the one that moves you forward.

Famous quotes on change:

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

 Lao Tzu quotes (Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote "Tao Te Ching" (also "The Book of the Way"). 600 BC-531 BC)

“In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.”

 Anne Sophie Swetchine quotes ((1782-1857))

“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.”

 Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

 Woodrow T. Wilson quotes (American 28th President of the United States 1856-1924)

“Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.”

 Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

 Plutarch quotes (Ancient Greek Biographer and Author, 46-119)

“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.”

 Reinhold Niebuhr quotes (American theologian, 1892-1971)

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”

 Mignon McLaughlin quotes (American Journalist and Author, 1913-1983)

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

- Berenice Abbott

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

- Hal Borland

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

- John Dewey

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form ... happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

- Charles L. Morgan

It is in changing that things find purpose.

- Heraclitus

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?

- Marcus Aurelius

The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.

- Charles Kingsley