Top 100 Nothing Permanent Quotes
#1. there is nothing permanent except change--
Heraclitus
#2. There's nothing permanent in the world,
Junot Diaz
#3. There is nothing permanent in the world except change.
Heraclitus
#4. Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
Heraclitus
#5. Life is miraculous, even in its suffering. Without suffering, life would not be possible. There is nothing permanent, and there is no separate self. Neither is there impermanence or no-self. When we see life deeply, there is no death. Therefore, it isn't necessary to say everlasting life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#6. We are like a restless sea, finding a little peace here and a little pleasure there, but nothing permanent and satisfying. So the search continues!
Billy Graham
#7. The therapist, he thought, and it bothered him a lot more than it should have. After all, he had nothing permanent with Sophie. He just needed to touch her on a semiregular basis or he couldn't finish his sentences.
Jennifer Crusie
#8. Water was a wild, capricious substance: nothing solid, nothing permanent, nothing as it appeared.
Anthony Doerr
#9. I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.
Red Adair
#10. You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.
Christopher Pike
#11. Jacen reflected bitterly that a large part of growing up seemed to involve watching everything change, and discovering that all changes are permanent. That nothing ever changes back.
That you can't go home again.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#12. I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it
Yoko Ono
#13. Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.
Colleen Hoover
#14. To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.
Dean Koontz
#15. Everything is perfect and nothing is permanent.
Dharma Mittra
#16. If we look at the world with a deluded body and mind, we will think that our self is permanent. But if we practice correctly and return to our true self, we will realize that nothing is permanent
Dogen
#17. The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#18. In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.
Mikhail Bakunin
#19. People are hungering for property - for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only ownership can protect or defend. It is humiliating to possess nothing, to own nothing, and hence to produce nothing and to count for nothing.
Louis O. Kelso
#20. I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent.
Haley Pullos
#21. FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain.
Arthur C. Brooks
#22. Nothing is permanent," Magnus said. "I know this from experience. But you can get new things. You can meet new people. You can go on.
Cassandra Clare
#23. Nothing in the world is permanent. The only permanent thing is impermanence.
Lisa See
#24. The people who want regeneration to be permanent are fanatics for the happy ending, dissatisfied with themselves and with anyone else, unrealistic men and women, anti-Christs, who were entertained by the miracles but learned nothing from Calvary.
John O'Hara
#25. In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
Anton Chekhov
#26. The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
Dinaw Mengestu
#27. BUDDHISM teaches that nothing is permanent, nothing is fixed, all is in flux.
Peter Popham
#29. Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#30. To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#31. Even in the worst of times, I've always known that nothing is permanent. No feeling is permanent and as much as you think bad feelings will kill you, they won't.
Jodie Sweetin
#32. Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin
#33. Nothing is permanent, I tell myself over and over. Especially not a horse.
Mara Dabrishus
#35. Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].
Edward De Bono
#36. Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
Shirley Maclaine
#37. I lead a bitter life, devoid of all external joy and in which I have nothing to keep me going but a sort of permanent rage, which weeps at times from impotence, but which is constant.
Gustave Flaubert
#38. Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
George Washington
#39. Nothing can be erased in life. Life is permanent, from the breaths we take to the decisions we make.
Jessica Sorensen
#40. Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
Orson Welles
#41. There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.
Conor Oberst
#42. Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
W. Somerset Maugham
#43. Nothing is permanent. Not even the end
of the world.
Isaac Marion
#44. Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections ... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Algernon Sidney
#45. Would that I could die, reduce myself to nothing, leave a glorious name to my country, die in the cause of defending it against a foreign invasion and afterwards the sun will shine on my body like a permanent sentinel in these ocean rocks!
Jose Rizal
#46. Life is a weird place, what gonna happen next? No one knows and nothing is permanent here.
Rahul Rawat
#47. Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul!
Munia Khan
#48. When we hold on too tightly to our attachments we are trying to keep them just as they are, to make them permanent. But nothing in life is permanent.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#49. What is yours today, you will lose some day; nothing is permanent, so don't make it a big deal.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds.
Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness.
Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.
Paulo Coelho
#51. Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.
Charlie Chaplin
#52. The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to
derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes
into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,
and brings in perennial interest.
Frederick Soddy
#53. Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.
Marcus Aurelius
#54. Ben Says: The good news is ... nothing ever is permanent. You are the artist of your life ... so take your brush & paint it bright!
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#55. Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent.
Camila Cabello
#56. All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
Heraclitus
#57. As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot
#58. I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.
Robert Goolrick
#59. just patience is needed and nothing is permanent." And
Osho
#60. Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
Daniel Webster
#61. Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer
Durgesh Satpathy
#62. It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.
Gregory Maguire
#63. It has been said that nothing in life is permanent except change.
Pooja Makhija
#64. Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have ... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
May Sarton
#65. There is nothing called a permanent love or a temporary love. Love is love. Love may be for a smaller duration or a longer duration.
Girdhar Joshi
#66. Once up on a time she was a heroine who used to cry with glycerine. Now she can cry without glycerine. Nothing is permanent in this world,
Ram Sai Nag
#67. Women who go into the harem do not come out. It is a permanent position." [...]
"I am not going in as a woman. I am going in as an assassin. So we have nothing to fear.
Kiersten White
#68. There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection
except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.
Thomas Huxley
#70. Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain could become nothing but a permanent and distant memory.
Lembit Opik
#72. To break one's mask in the presence of someone you reject is an act of permanent separation. To say that you are finished with them in your life, so much so that you do not worry about them seeing your true face. You'll never see them again, so your secrets are nothing in their hands.
Sara Raasch
#73. Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#74. Nothing is ever the same. Nothing is permanent. Nothing can be trusted to be there. Nothing is safe, including home. Why lie to yourself? Every day we leave something, someone, some observation behind.
Diane Keaton
#75. The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
Eric Alterman
#76. I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#77. There really was nothing firm, nothing certain. Even here, even at this place where he thought he'd found something permanent - everything could change in a day. Everything could be lost so quickly.
S.J. Kincaid
#78. John's tattoo..Goddamn..He'd done it as a memorial to her-putting her name in his skin so she'd be with him always. After all, there was nothing more permanent than that-hell, that was why in the mating ceremony males got their backs carved up: Rings could get lost.
J.R. Ward
#79. I just wanna say nothing is permanent in this world, only change
Jayson Engay
#80. ...nothing in the world is solid or real, because nothing is permanent, and all things---including trees and animals and pebbles and mountains and rivers and me and you---are just flowing through for the time being.
Ruth Ozeki
#81. All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
Ovid
#82. If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#83. I tried to pretend that kiss meant nothing. I tried to pretend she didn't have permanent residence in my dreams. I tried to pretend I wasn't using her to feel wanted, and I tried to pretend I wasn't dying to see her again - I became the great pretender.
Tali Alexander
#84. At twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it! Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.
Booth Tarkington
#85. Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#86. Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman
#87. Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession.
Sebastien Foucan
#88. Nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.
Alexandra Adornetto
#89. Everything wears out eventually; nothing is permanent. Change is the one constant of life.
Philip K. Dick
#91. In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no conflict, nothing that is not you, and nothing that is not love can survive in it. This represents the the fulfillment of the divine transpersonal purpose of your relationship.
Eckhart Tolle
#92. Nothing can get spoilt as long the mind is steady, and when it becomes restless, it will spoil. God doesn't give or take from anyone, but because God is in the permanent blissful state, all external actions will go well when one's mind is steadied in Him.
Dada Bhagwan
#94. Mistakes are very seldom permanent, most of them can be fixed with less difficulty and drama than one imagines, and there's nothing shameful about them. There is, however, something sad and limiting about the fear of making them.
Peter Buffett
#95. Nothing was ever definite, but in that moment, Jill's soul had found a permanent home.
Carolyn Brown
#96. Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we're going to be happier people.
Louise Penny
#97. That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#98. But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.
Ron Rash
#99. In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.
Danielle Cormack
#100. Nothing is permanent. Anger passes. Stupidity is usually temporary. And even the best things in life can't last forever. ~Matt
Trish Doller
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