10 Stoic Quotes on Embracing Change

  • “Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.” — Marcus Aurelius

  • “Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.” — Marcus Aurelius

  • “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius

  • “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.” — Marcus Aurelius

  • “Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.” — Marcus Aurelius

  • “We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it?” — Marcus Aurelius

  • “Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.” — Seneca

  • “All things fade and quickly turn to myth.” — Marcus Aurelius

  • “Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.” — Epictetus

  • “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” — Seneca