The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions.… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“If we don’t insist on defining impermanence as unsatisfactory, then it’s natural to celebrate. Just a moments pause to consider the passing… — Lin Jensen 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
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!" — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS… — Dogen Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“I have no news of my coming or passing away-- the whole thing happened quicker than a breath; ask no questions of… — Farid al-Din Attar (عطار Copy Share Image
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“I seem always to enjoy things more intensely because of the certainty they will not last.” — W.L. Rusho Copy Share Image
