Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.