Quotes About Change And Impermanence

#1. We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible ... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest.

Nhat Hanh

#2. Daily life provides countless occasions for adapting to change and impermanence. Yet we squander these precious opportunities, assuming that we have all the time in the world.

Yongey Mingyur

#3. Don't deny yourself food, but pay attention to what your body needs when your mind craves a block of cheese because you haven't had adult conversation in eight hours.

Kristina Pinto

#4. TURNING YOUR MIND toward the dharma does not bring security or confirmation. Turning your mind toward the dharma does not bring any ground to stand on. In fact, when your mind turns toward the dharma, you fearlessly acknowledge impermanence and change and begin to get the knack of hopelessness.

Pema Chodron

#5. The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today's comforts for tomorrow's opportunities.

Vironika Tugaleva

#6. By identifying impermanence as a fundamental characteristic of existence itself, rather than a problem to be solved, the Buddhists are encouraging us to let go our hold on illusory solidity and learn to swim freely in the sea of change.

Andrew Olendzki

#7. Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal.

SARK

#8. Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to.

Marty Rubin

#9. You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

Cornel West

#10. Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#11. I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

Frank Zappa

#12. Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

Christopher Dawson

#13. EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind and sky: All these are God's expression, art work of His hand, which men must love ere they can understand.

Richard Hovey

#14. Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#15. By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong, with friends who truly understand you and bring all sorts of opportunities your way.

Martha Beck

#16. Human says time goes by -
Time says human goes by

Anonymous

#17. He's here. We can smell it. (Arcadian Sentinel)
You need to get your head out of your sphincter and stop smelling your own underwear cause the only jackals here, buddy, are you. (Aimee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Dian Fossey

#19. Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

Myrtle Reed

#20. This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#21. I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas

Kelley Armstrong

#22. Impermanence means that everything changes and that nothing remains the same in any consecutive moments. And although things change every moment, they still cannot be accurately described as the same or as different from what they were a moment ago.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#23. Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus

#24. brace covered his neck. Dark, fingerless gloves covered his hands to allow a better grip on his shotgun. An aluminum baseball bat was slung across his back, Samurai-style, in a crude scabbard next to a large backpack He

Keith C. Blackmore

#25. In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#26. Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

Michael Beckwith

#27. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan W. Watts