Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days. — Philip Whalen Copy Share Image
“Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. It’s enough to drive you bat shit crazy.” — Shane Kuhn Copy Share Image
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would. — Ursula Bloom Copy Share Image
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
“When we hold on too tightly to our attachments we are trying to keep them just as they are, to make them… — Gyalwa Dokhampa Copy Share Image
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting. — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“Such is the impermanence of life and the endurance of a child's spirit." Grandmaster Deitrux, Ice Phoenix.” — Sulin Young Copy Share Image
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut!… — Allan Sherman Copy Share Image
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite,… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves… — William Browne Copy Share Image
By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freed from the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructive view of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Our lives are constantly in a state of change and evolution. The things that cause you to identify as “you” are temporary,… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“We have to make a consideration: emotional states are deeply influenced by external events, and here lies the problem. Since the external… — Andrea Dandolo Copy Share Image
“The route of true happiness, the Buddha argued, was to achieve a visceral understanding of impermanence, which would take you off the… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“We are so consumed with wanting this or that or are wanting to solve our problems, that we fail to see Life’s… — AVIS Viswanathan Copy Share Image
“...a profound opportunity to embrace impermanence. How those of us who are renters are perhaps in a better position to recognize that… — Susan Rebecca White Copy Share Image
“Drama of life may get gripping, intense or interesting but eventually it's still a drama.” — Aditya Ajmera Copy Share Image
Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
