Impermanent Quotes

42 quotes by 36 authors

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself. — Jean Giraudoux
There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that… — Ramana Maharshi
Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything… — Stephen Levine
Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying… — Jack Kornfield
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent. — Nhat Hanh
Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which it… — Stephen Batchelor
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. — Gautama Buddha
The world is continuous flux and is impermanent. — Gautama Buddha
For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every… — Deepak Chopra
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and… — K D Lang
We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact with. Our tendency… — Noah Levine
Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent...… — L. Ron Hubbard
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient… — Wilhelm Wundt
Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him youâ€™re as cute as a button, flash… — Nancy Milford
Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of… — Bokar Rinpoche
There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is… — Ian Gardner
The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.] — Ramakrishna
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes.Â We are trying to make steady and permanentÂ what is by nature impermanent. — Mooji
Everything is impermanent, except the love of God. — Neem Karoli Baba

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