Impermanent Quotes

42 quotes by 36 authors

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is… — Alan Watts
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs.… — Pema Chodron
When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent. — Said Nursi
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry. — David Tang
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and… — Frederick Lenz
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process. — Pema Chodron
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent. — Mitch Albom
Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it… — Mitch Albom
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and… — Pema Chodron
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself. — Josh Lanyon
That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116) — Stephen Levine
...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to… — Keith Ablow
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the… — Mira Grant
There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent.… — Alan Watts
Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and… — Kristin Hannah
The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets… — Joe Henderson
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self. — Patanjali

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