Change Quotes

Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.

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"Change is the constant through which all growth becomes possible."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"God does not change His creation; creation changes itself."
Ibn Arabi
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"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The visible animals have evolved; the spiritually evolving ones are those turning back into essence."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"By the time you finish reading this sentence, you will have changed."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Hafiz
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"Every moment is a chance to turn your life around."
Hafiz
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"Your tears water the garden of your transformation."
Hafiz
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"Doubt is the companion of growth, not its enemy."
Teresa of Avila
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"Change is not something to resist, but to embrace with grace."
Teresa of Avila
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"Sadness is a transition to a lesser state of perfection."
Spinoza
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"Despair arises when one realizes the impermanence of all external dependencies."
Spinoza
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"Every moment contains infinite possibilities for transformation."
Ibn Arabi
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"What you resist persists; what you accept transforms."
Ibn Arabi
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"Every ending contains the seed of a new beginning."
Ibn Arabi
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"Change is the only constant; resistance to it is the source of suffering."
Ibn Arabi
"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself."
Meister Eckhart
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"I am here to change the rules. I came into this world to be wild."
Hafiz
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"Every moment is a crossroads where you choose to wake up or go back to sleep."
Hafiz
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"I died as mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was human."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"Change is the nature of all created things."
Meister Eckhart
"Every moment contains the potential for transformation."
Meister Eckhart
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"The Lord is not pleased with tears, but with a change of life."
Teresa of Avila
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"We must learn to say goodbye to that which no longer serves us with grace and gratitude."
Teresa of Avila
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"In every moment, God offers us the opportunity to begin again."
Julian of Norwich
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"Nature does nothing by jumps; all changes are gradual."
Spinoza
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"The soul must die to itself to be reborn in God."
John of the Cross
"Change is the only constant in creation."
Meister Eckhart