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If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live. — Chris Matakas

Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck

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

My father rules an entire planet."
"He's losing it. — Frank Herbert

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. — Gautama Buddha

Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next. — Yasmin Mogahed

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels. — Jack Kornfield

Nothing in the world is permanent. The only permanent thing is impermanence. — Lisa See

We are all on loan to each other and nothing belongs to us. — Marty Rubin

Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. It's enough to drive you bat shit crazy. — Shane Kuhn

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life. — Nhat Hanh

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Any wave of the ocean could be my epitaph. — Marty Rubin

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have. — Marty Rubin

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

All love is true while it lasts. — Marty Rubin

What fades, vanishes, decays, dies-that's what one must love. — Marty Rubin

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

For them, and for Homer, impermanence is life's central sorrow and the source of its most lasting pain. — Adam Nicolson

The knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. — Thich Nhat Hanh

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world. — Dogen

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose. — Marty Rubin

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. — Pema Chodron

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116) — Stephen Levine

Everything that is real lasts only for a moment. — Marty Rubin

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting. — Michael Beckwith

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible. — Marty Rubin

Impermanence is the law of the universe. — Carlene Hatcher Polite

And yet for all that I still had never gotten used to the breathtaking impermanence of things. — Michael Chabon

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid. — Eiji Yoshikawa

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body. — Bill Porter

And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising. — Amit Ray

We rise to meet each day because there will come a time when the day will rise without us — Chris Matakas

Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to. — Marty Rubin

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance. — Chris Matakas

At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence. — James K. Morrow

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. — Alan W. Watts

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The only permanent aspect of creation is constant impermanence. — Chris Matakas

... the very concept of happiness is conditional, a fiction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Part of the problem of the city is the impermanence of success. We're only as good as our last deal, — Derek L. Worthington

All things that have form eventually decay. -Orochimaru — Masashi Kishimoto

Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence. — Dalai Lama

Nothing endures but change. — Heraclitus

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers

Suffering is described in terms of three characteristics of impermanence or transitory nature, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness. — Dalai Lama XIV

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns. — Ellen Glasgow

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

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

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he? — Joan Didion

And here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad ... gilded with impermanence ... — John Geddes

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

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is. — Pessoa, Fernando

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

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

Seize the day, then let it go. — Marty Rubin

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. — Gregory Maguire

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. — Gaston Bachelard

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days? — Rainer Maria Rilke

Do everything and nothing is done. — Marty Rubin

What is true for one time only is truer than what's always true. — Marty Rubin

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

It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence. — Gerald Vizenor

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow. — Storm Jameson

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts. — Peter S. Beagle

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants. — Ruth Ozeki

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty - their impermanence. — Pamela Moore

In the impermanence of life, it was impossible to accept the foreverness of death. — Martine Murray

.....we find ourselves inhabitants of the last few living cells of a dying god — Billy Kazee

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet. — Myrtle Reed

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!" — Nhat Hanh

Human says time goes by -
Time says human goes by — Anonymous

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon. — Deepak Chopra

In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would. — Ursula Bloom

Write as if Time will erase every word. — Marty Rubin

In a heart that truly loves life grief is always transitory. — Marty Rubin

In the face of impermanence and death, it takes courage to love the things of this world and to believe that praising them is our noblest calling. — Joanna Macy

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. — David Foster Wallace

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly. — Marty Rubin

Write as if the wind will erase every word. — Marty Rubin

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

I seem always to enjoy things more intensely because of the certainty they will not last. — W.L. Rusho

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. — Heraclitus

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting. — Richard Paul Evans

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself. — Josh Lanyon