Quotes about Permanence

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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
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. — James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. — David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. — Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
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
Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery. — Ahmed Mostafa
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who — Zeena Schreck
Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bon — Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociolog — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Mr. Codro's destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and — Alberto Savinio
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