All MARCUS AURELIUS Quotes about “Change”

“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change.”
“"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?”
“Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.”
“The universe is in change, life is an opinion.”
“Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?”
“Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?”
“The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it”
“Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?”
“Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.”
“Everything is only for a day ... the universe loves nothing so much as to change things.”
“All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.”
“There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.”

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