"When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought." - H. P. Blavatsky

"The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the Great Breath which is eternity." - H. P. Blavatsky

"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change." - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

"It is only the wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change." - Confucius, Analects

"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable." - Benjamin Disraeli, speech (1867)

"Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness." - Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers

"All is flux, nothing stays still." - Heraclitus, quoted by Plato in Cratylus

"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place." - Washington Irving

"The more things change, the more they remain the same. (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)" - Alphonse Karr, in Les Guêpes

"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

"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?" - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep
A stable, changeless state, `twere cause indeed to weep."
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, Mutation

"The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy."
- ABRAHAM COWLEY, Inconstancy

"Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor."
- ROBERT FROST, The Black Cottage

"All things change; nothing perishes." - OVID, Metamorphoses

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )

"Few have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of those acts, will be written the history of this generation." - Kennedy, Robert F.

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich (1828-1910)