Unchanging Quotes

• Change alone is unchanging.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Unity

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• The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.

  Susan Faludi

  Voice, Forever, Body

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Truth, Circles

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• We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.

  Parmenides

  Thinking, Different, Speak

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• It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

  Samuel Beckett

  Memories, Should Have, One Day

  Samuel Beckett (1959). “Molloy”, John Calder Pub Ltd

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• Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Character, Joy, Circumstances

  Carolyn Custis James (2002). “When Life and Beliefs Collide: How Knowing God Makes a Difference”, p.146, Zondervan

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• We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Change, Presidential

  Bettina Stiekel, Jimmy Carter, Various (2003). “The Nobel Book of Answers: The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Other Nobel Prize Winners Answer Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions for Young People”, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Change, Certain

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• The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Eye, Recognition

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.53, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being and subside like waves of the ocean.

  Jean Klein

  Spiritual, Ocean, Sight

  Jean Klein (2015). “Be Who You Are”, p.16, New Harbinger Publications

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• If God is not unchanging, then the whole basis of our faith begins to fall apart, and our understanding of the universe begins to unravel. This is because our faith and hope and knowledge all ultimately depend on a person who is infinitely worthy of trust - because he is absolutely and eternally unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises.

  Wayne Grudem

  Fall, Perfection, Understanding

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.153, Zondervan

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• Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Perfect

  Deepak Chopra (1991). “Return of the Rishi: A Doctor's Story of Spiritual Transformation and Ayurvedic Healing”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.

  Heraclitus

  Constant, Permanent

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• All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

  Frank Knight

  Static, Aspect

  Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.178, Transaction Publishers

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• In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

  Hu Shih

  Responsibility, Intellectual, Realizing

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• You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness.
  Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy.

  Swami Muktananda

  Joy, Mountain, Consciousness

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• Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

  Alan Rickman

  Children, Book, Phones

  "Every Snape scene in chronological order shows his anguished evolution" by Rob Dean, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Memories, Generations, Records

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272

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• The body is just a water bubble. The mind is like a mad monkey. Do not follow either the body or the mind. Follow the Conscience. It is above the mind. It is permanent. It is the voice of God, the voice of unchanging truth inside you.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Voice, Mad, Water

  Source: souljourns.net

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• The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

  Plato

  Unseen, Cycles

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• I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

  Chuck Yeager

  Differences, Flying, Chinese

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• Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.

  George F. Kennan

  Military, Ocean, Government

  Foreword to 'The Pathology of Power' by Norman Cousins in 1987. "At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 118, 1996.

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• God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

  Billy Graham

  Love You, Thrones, His Love

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• David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his worship - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Though our affections for God may wax and wane, His character is unchanging! We even see David speaking to his own soul, demanding of it, "Bless the Lord!"

  Laura Story

  Father, Character, Son

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