impermanence Quotes

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

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

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.