Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. — Nhat Hanh
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution. — Russian Proverbs
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world. — Dogen
There is nothing permanent except change. — Heraclitus
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place. — Stephanie Mills
Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon. — Deepak Chopra
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent. — Mitch Albom
Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable. — Colleen Hoover
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron
Life is full of temporary situations, ultimately ending in a permanent solution. — Rodney Dangerfield
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss. — Peggy Orenstein
Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change — Bruce Dickinson
Art is a reverberation of an impermanent life. — Rick Rubin
Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. — Naval Ravikant
The world is a shirt everyone wears for an hour. — Moroccan Proverbs
Literally all that exists is this moment. — Naval Ravikant
Easy come, easy go. — English Proverbs
Our lives are written in disappearing ink. — Michelle Cliff
So therefore this is scarcity that humans can’t f*** around with. — Raoul Pal
You only have one life. You have to spend it doing something that matters. — Michael J. Massimino
I kind of feel like every moment is a death. — Naval Ravikant
What I do is temporary, but what I leave behind is forever. — Markiplier
Impermanent Image Quotes
Everything is impermanent. Knowing this, just relax.
Life Is Impermanent Quotes
The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now. — Leo Babauta
Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself. — L. Ron Hubbard
Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted. — Wes Moore
I liked the feeling of winning. It made me feel like I mattered. All I’ve ever wanted in my life is to matter. — Alexi Pappas
For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter. — Deepak Chopra
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next. — Yasmin Mogahed
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change. — Mata Amritanandamayi
In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!" — Nhat Hanh
Things Are Impermanent Quotes
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict. — U.G. Krishnamurti
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. — Nhat Hanh
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. — Buddha
The things we thought would last forever are worn away by time. — Romanian Proverbs
The things we lose are not losses. They are entryways. They are the world saying, sometimes sharply, there is something else out there. — Brianna Wiest
The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent. — Alan Watts
I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty, flux, impermanence - these are things I'm acutely aware of. And I enjoy facing it all. — Rivers Cuomo
We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest. — Nhat Hanh
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside. — K. D. Lang
Things [only] exist once they are represented. — Thomas Bidegain
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme. — Buddha
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors. — George Schaller
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259 — Rachel Naomi Remen
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process. — Pema Chodron
Through winter-time we call on spring,
And through the spring on summer call,
And when the abounding hedges ring
Declare that winter's best of all:
And after that there's nothing good
Because the spring time has not come-
Not know that what disturbs our blood
Is but its longing for the tomb. — William Butler Yeats
The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns. — Ellen Glasgow
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen
Every civilization:
Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING, LEARNING was NOT to MAKE MORE MONEY;
It was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING. — Hamza Yusuf
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing. — Sakyong Mipham
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life. — Dogen
Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Confucius
Impermanent Change Quotes
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. — W. Somerset Maugham
It is not possible to step twice into the same river — Greek Proverbs
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window. — Nicholas Sparks
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet. — Myrtle Reed
This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers
We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing. — Thubten Yeshe
The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes. — Alan Watts
Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting. — Michael Beckwith
Impermanent Love Quotes
Love your parents because you don’t know what will happen everyday. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
When you lose someone you love, you don’t think the same way. And that’s why I say I enjoy life: because it goes very fast. — Paul Pogba
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith
The depth of your pain will always be equal to the depth of your love. — Shannon Alder
If you’re going to love someone or something then don’t be a slow leaking faucet – be a hurricane. — Shannon Alder
Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death. — Alan Watts
The moment you believe that love is not about losing or winning. It is just a few moments in time, followed by an eternity of situations to grow from. — Shannon Alder
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion. — Emile Zola
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. — May Sarton
Being Impermanent Quotes
We’re not really here for that long and we don’t really matter that much. And nothing that we do lasts. So eventually you will fade. Your works will fade. Your children will fade. Your thoughts will fade. This planet will fade. The sun will fade. It will all be gone. — Naval Ravikant
Vast numbers of people are working longer, in jobs they rightly fear will soon be gone. — Jeff Booth
In my half-awake state it occurs to me that one day we’re all going to be dead, that we will all be dead much longer than we were alive. — Scott Kelly
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND.
THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE. — Dogen
You might be sad or happy or chasing a dream or still trying to find one, but whatever you are, you are the truth. Right now, you are perfect. — Alexi Pappas
It’s more satisfying to be useful now than to be remembered later. — Dan Sullivan
Everything is, to some extent, a compromise. Not everything can be perfect. — Jim Simons
The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. — Leo Babauta
Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living. — Dainin Katagiri
Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden. — Henry Mitchell
Zen Quotes
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? — Dogen
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. — Dogen
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself. — Matsuo Basho
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them? — Buddha
If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. — Buddha
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity. — D.T. Suzuki
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. — Buddha
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course. — Zhuangzi
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma
Have good trust in yourself,
not in the One that you think you should be,
but in the One that you are. — Taizan Maezumi
Impermanence Quotes
If the triggers for happy moments are so ordinary and so accessible, why does 'finding' happiness remain such a big challenge for so many people? And why, when we 'find' it, does it so easily slip away? — Mo Gawdat
Safety isn't just an illusion, it's a cop-out. I know it sounds trite, but there's simply nothing like a near-death experience to remind one of the impermanence of everything. And living imprisoned by fear only to die with regret over dreams postponed was a life neither of us was interested in. — Rich Roll
If you’re desensitized to the fact that you’re going to die, consider it a different way. As far as you’re concerned, this world is going to end. Now what? — Naval Ravikant
Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day. — Vijay Kedia
The one constant is value. Value is appreciated no matter where you go. — James Sinegal
Live everyday from that place of your soul where you are invincible and nothing is impossible. — Chatri Sityodtong
What comes from bubbles will disappear in bubbles. — Filipino Proverbs
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will not let go. I do not accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it...forever. Or at least I'm going to try.' — Jason Silva
Nothing Is Permanent Quotes
Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent. — Camila Cabello
Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. — Milton Friedman
In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. — Mikhail Bakunin
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. — T. S. Eliot
Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying. — Nathanael West
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to
derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes
into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,
and brings in perennial interest. — Frederick Soddy
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement. — Ovid
There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately] — Heraclitus
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation. — Madeleine L'Engle
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death. — Don Ed Hardy
Follow-up is personal. It must be done by someONE; not by someTHING. For it to be effective we must set the pace. We can't permanently sell something we don't make time to get into our lives. — Dawson Trotman
We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water. — Desmond Tutu
We will not rest until we reach a permanent agreement [with the Palestinians] that would secure a safe future for our children and that would provide us with renewed hope to live in a region where people lead a life of co-operation and not, God forbid, where blood is shed. — Yitzhak Rabin
Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring. — Diane Keaton
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it. — Charles A. Lindbergh
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it. — Charles Lindbergh
Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain. — Booth Tarkington
By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life. — William Braxton Irvine
Because she understood what I was only then coming to realize – that safety isn’t just an illusion, it’s a cop-out. I know it sounds trite, but there’s simply nothing like a near-death experience to remind one of the impermanence of everything. And living imprisoned by fear only to die with regret over dreams postponed was a life neither of us was interested in. — Rich Roll
Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way. — Jack Kornfield
People will come and go as they are scheduled to. Let them. Holding on does not affect them, only you. — Brianna Wiest
Humans are actually far more likely to get taken out by an impact event or a supervolcano than we are to get killed in a crash of a commercial airliner. — John Young
No man can claim total victory until he gets home (Heaven). — Enoch Adeboye
If you threw a stone into a gutter, it would only spurt filth in your face. — R.K. Narayan
Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not going to give it five years. — Meghan Markle
If you are not fighting for something bigger than yourself you are dying for nothing. — Chatri Sityodtong
Your worth is not what you have, but who you are. — Matshona Dhliwayo
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