Quotes about Impermanence

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It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. — Heraclitus
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. — Rabindranath Tagore
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. — David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116) — Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink — Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who — Zeena Schreck
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. — Alan W. Watts
When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the tim — Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people — Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be — Steve Maraboli
Nothing endures but change. — Heraclitus
A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime andInfini — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
We need to cease allowing the past to define us. We are evolving as a human race, and just because war and aggressive co — Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
There is no "the way things are." Every day is different, and you live it differently. — Marty Rubin
If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a cold — Hermann Hesse, Knulp
Why are the desert blooms that spring to life after a monsoon so magnificent? The answer is – their impermanence. The lu — Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of — Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to — Robert Frost
Love is misunderstood by many. Love is to be in the state of calmness even when everything is getting destroyed of you & — Chetan M. Kumbhar, Panasu The Golden City & The Capasstars