To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“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 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
For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs. — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“We will lost everything that matters, or everything that matters will lose us. It is predestined, the nature of life.” — Steven Rowley Copy Share Image
Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime:… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
“1. “Death is the first thing to become certain the very moment life is conceived, and it is the only reality that… — Neena Verma 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
Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“On a certain day in the blue-moon month of September Beneath a young plum tree, quietly I held her there, my quiet,… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets.… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“[S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not… — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
“Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Change is the very nature of Nature. if there's one thing that doesn't change, it is the fact that everything changes. In… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“1. I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. 2. I am of the… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
“The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“As a matter of historical fact, Japan has suffered far less from wars, famines, and floods than China, for example, where these… — Alex Kerr Copy Share Image
If dislocation is a permanent state, I want to try and explore the possibility of temporary impermanence. If dislocation is a tatty… — Diriye Osman Copy Share Image
Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The first point is that about impermanence. Bliss, peace, happiness, as well as their counterparts pain, chaos, and misery, are all transient… — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and… — Dōgen Zenji 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
Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all,… — John Milton 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
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
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. — Nhat Hanh 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
“A great future doesn’t require a great past and great present doesn't assure a great future.” — Aditya Ajmera Copy Share Image
In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body. — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend. — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will… — Lisa J. Shultz Copy Share Image
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