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Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet. -- Myrtle Reed
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. -- Pema Chodron
Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!" -- Nhat Hanh
Impermanence is the law of the universe. -- Carlene Hatcher Polite
Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon. -- Deepak Chopra
Impermanence and selflessness are not negative aspect of life, but the very foundation on which life is built. Impermanence is the constant transformation of things. Without impermanence, there can be no life. Selflessness is the interdependent nature of all things. Without interdependence, nothing could exist. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. -- Steve Jobs
Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. -- Nhat Hanh
In the long run we are all dead. -- John Maynard Keynes
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. -- May Sarton
Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life. -- Nhat Hanh
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body. -- Bill Porter
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence. -- Dalai Lama
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
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display. -- Nadeem Aslam
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. -- Heinrich Heine
Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. -- William Hazlitt
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 leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
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
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
If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible. -- Nhat Hanh
Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
Nothing endures but change. -- Heraclitus
Do everything and nothing is done. -- Marty Rubin
Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly. -- Marty Rubin
Seize the day, then let it go. -- Marty Rubin
All love is true while it lasts. -- Marty Rubin
Write as if Time will erase every word. -- Marty Rubin
All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru -- Masashi Kishimoto
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The only permanent aspect of creation is constant impermanence. -- Chris Matakas
Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have. -- Marty Rubin
My father rules an entire planet.""He's losing it. -- Frank Herbert
Everything that is real lasts only for a moment. -- Marty Rubin
I believe in the brief eternity of the rose. -- Marty Rubin
Write as if the wind will erase every word. -- Marty Rubin
Any wave of the ocean could be my epitaph. -- Marty Rubin
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Human says time goes by -Time says human goes by -- Anonymous
Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to. -- Marty Rubin
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world. -- Dogen
To know yourself you must know the transience of your self. -- Ilyas Kassam
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid. -- Eiji Yoshikawa
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. -- David Foster Wallace
That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116) -- Stephen Levine
Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia. -- Zeena Schreck
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. -- Gregory Maguire
...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence... -- John Geddes
Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible. -- Marty Rubin
If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live. -- Chris Matakas
The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers -- Ashim Shanker
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Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself. -- Josh Lanyon
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting. -- Richard Paul Evans
We rise to meet each day because there will come a time when the day will rise without us -- Chris Matakas
The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance. -- Chris Matakas
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. -- Paulo Coelho
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. -- Alan Watts
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -- Heraclitus
They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts. -- Peter S. Beagle
Detachment is not giving up the things in this world, but accepting the fact and to be continuously aware that nothing is permanent. -- Aditya Ajmera
When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have. -- Steve Maraboli
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...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment. -- Nicholas Sparks
Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance. -- Steve Maraboli
When we hold on too tightly to our attachments we are trying to keep them just as they are, to make them permanent. But nothing in life is permanent. -- Gyalwa Dokhampa
I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory -- Sam Savage
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain. -- Kabir
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward. -- Zeena Schreck
A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime andInfinite aftertime: above your headThey close like giant wings, and you are dead. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi') -- Dogen
The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self. -- Vironika Tugaleva
Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions. We all create suffering for ourselves through our resistance, through our desire to have things different than the way they are - that is, our clinging or aversion. -- Noah Levine
I've known supreme happiness, and I'm not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn't it be foolish, knowing that nothing lasts forever, to insist that one has a right to do something that does?[...]but, if eternity existed, it would be this moment. -- Yukio Mishima
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. -- James Baldwin
The Jetavana Temple bells ring the passing of all things. Twinned sala trees, white in full flower, declare the great man's certain fall. The arrogant do not long endure: They are like a dream one night in spring. The bold and brave perish in the end:They are as dust before the wind. -- Royall Tyler
Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days? -- Rainer Maria Rilke
the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns. -- Ellen Glasgow
...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence..." -- John Geddes
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. -- Gaston Bachelard
Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting. -- Michael Beckwith
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. -- Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels. -- Jack Kornfield
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. -- Pema Chodron
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence. -- Meredith L. Young-Sowers
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It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. -- Nhat Hanh
You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you. -- E.J. Koh
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
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Spirits didn't notice death. By the rule of impermanence, what was meant to break simply broke, and there was only the next breaking and the next. -- E.J. Koh
What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself -- Buddha
This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path. -- Jeff Bridges
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
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
Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything. -- Jonathan Tropper
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
[S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence. -- Joan Silber

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