Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would. — Ursula Bloom Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. — Gregory Maguire 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
“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
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
“Such is the impermanence of life and the endurance of a child's spirit." Grandmaster Deitrux, Ice Phoenix.” — Sulin Young Copy Share Image
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
“What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and… — Buddha Copy Share Image
The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“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… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
You find a flower half-buried in leaves, And in your eye its very fate resides. Loving beauty, you caress the bloom; Soon… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“IMPERMANENCE "Driftsand of the hours. Quietly disappearing, continuously, even the happily consecrated design. Life blows away, always: pillars already rise without connection,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We usually appreciate only half the cycle of impermanence. We can accept birth but not death, gain but not loss, or the… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Copy Share Image
“The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
“The basic Buddhist teaching of impermanence (Pali: anicca) suggests that even the most powerful spiritual experiences come and go like clouds in… — Jonathan Landaw Copy Share Image
“But what a universe, anyhow! No use blaming human-beings for what they were. Everything was made so that it had to torture… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Meatspace equals entropy. Impermanence. The fading of anger or passion is analogous to the fading of a photograph, the yellowing of old… — Maria Bustillos Copy Share Image
The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy… — Kobayashi Issa Copy Share Image
One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course,… — Ashim Shanker 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
“Drama of life may get gripping, intense or interesting but eventually it's still a drama.” — Aditya Ajmera Copy Share Image
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next. — Yasmin Mogahed 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
Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant.… — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
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