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#1

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: impermanence, loss, posessions, transience

1606 likes

#2

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

tags: eternity, impermanence, journey, life, mujo

2151 likes

#3

“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: impermanence, life, loss

1366 likes

#4

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: change, dance, flow, impermanence, inspiration, reality, things, world

1031 likes

#5

“Nothing endures but change.”
― Heraclitus

tags: change, impermanence, mujō, time, 無常

287 likes

#6

“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.”
― Kabir, The Bijak of Kabir

tags: death, impermanence, old-songs, sword-sentiments, wisdom, zen

220 likes

#7

“All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru”
― Masashi Kishimoto

tags: decay, impermanence, life-and-death, naruto, orochimaru

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#8

“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.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: delight, foolish, impermanence

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#9

“A thousand years ago five minutes were
Equal to forty ounces of fine sand.
Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and
Infinite aftertime: above your head
They close like giant wings, and you are dead.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

tags: eternity, impermanence, time

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#10

“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: ancient-wisdom, impermanence

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#11

“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”
― Zeena Schreck

tags: autonomy, buddhism, disillusionment, illusion, impermanence, individuation, nostalgia, nostalgic, reality, spiritual-transformation, tantric-buddhism, zeena-schreck

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#12

“I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory”
― Sam Savage, Firmin

tags: forever, impermanence, last, life, memory

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#13

“Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.”
― Zeena Schreck

tags: animal-liberation, animal-totem, animism, death, deity-yoga, freedom, gods, gods-and-warriors, illusion, impermanence, left-hand-path, magic, magick, magick-and-faith, martial-art-training, materialism-versus-spiritualism, plant-spirits, reality, sacred-travel, self-identity, shamanic, shamanic-healing, shamanism, shamanism-healing, shapeshifter, spirit-possession, spiritual-journey, spiritual-transformation, spirituality, taboo-breaking, taboos, tai-chi, tai-chi-chuan, tantra, tantric-buddhism, totemism, vamamarga, zeena-schreck

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#14

“One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.”
― Dōgen, A Primer of Soto Zen: A Translation of Dogen's Shobogenzo Zuimonki

tags: awareness, impermanence, world, zen

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#15

“The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but what we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock.”
― Annie Dillard, The Maytrees

tags: death, impermanence, love, mortality

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#16

“Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat - these are the alternations of the world, the workings of fate. Day and night they change place before us, and wisdom cannot spy out their source. Therefore, they should not be enough to destroy your harmony; they should not be allowed to enter the storehouse of the spirit. If you can harmonize and delight in them, master them and never be at a loss for joy; if you can do this day and night without break and make it be spring with everything, mingling with all and creating the moment within your own mind - this is what I call being whole in power.”
― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

tags: change, equanimity, fate, harmony, impermanence, wholeness

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#17

“Eventually everything appears to disappear from the life. That's it.”
― Aditya Ajmera

tags: appearance, awareness, disappear, illusion, impermanence, life-philosophy

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#18

“The route of true happiness, the Buddha argued, was to achieve a visceral understanding of impermanence, which would take you off the emotional roller coaster and allow you to see your dramas and desires through a wider lens. To truly tame the 'monkey mind' and defeat our habitual tendency toward clinging, meditation was the prescription, and sitting and actively facing the 'voice in your head' mindfully for a few minutes a day might be the hardest thing you'll ever do. Accept that challenge and improve your life drastically. It's about mitigation, not alleviation. It's that simple. The only way out is through.”
― Dan Harris, 10% Happier

tags: clinging, happiness, impermanence, meditation, mitigation, monkey-mind, voice-in-my-head

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#19

“If we don’t insist on defining impermanence as unsatisfactory, then it’s natural to celebrate. Just a moments pause to consider the passing of the seasons is enough to convince anyone that not only is impermanence the source of all possible joy in this life but its the movement of life itself.”
― Lin Jensen, Bad Dog!: A Memoir of Love, Beauty, and Redemption in Dark Places

tags: awareness, gratitude, here-and-now, impermanence, zen

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#20

“δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης.
-You cannot step twice into the same river.”
― Heraclitus, quoted by Plato, Cratylus, 402a

tags: change, impermanence, quote, river

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#21

“In Zen Buddhist texts they say, “You cannot nail a peg into the sky.” And so, to be a man of the sky, a man of the void, is also called ‘a man not depending on anything’. And when you’re not hung on anything you are the only thing that isn’t hung on anything – which is the universe. Which doesn’t hang, you see. Where would it hang? It has no place to fall on, even though it may be dropping; there will never be the crash of it landing on a concrete floor somewhere. But the reason for that is that it won’t crash below because it doesn’t hang above. And so there is a poem, in Chinese, which speaks of such a person as having above, not a tile to cover the head; below, not an inch of ground on which to stand.”
― Alan W. Watts, Out of Your Mind

tags: alan-watts, buddhism, clinging, god, impermanence, spirituality, universe, void, zen

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#22

“Life's impermanence
teaches us that
change is the only constant;
urging us to embrace
each fleeting moment.

With appreciation
and acceptance.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

tags: change, change-is-constant, impermanence, life

2 likes

#23

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: inspirational, the-notebook

13678 likes

#24

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: friendship, love

10685 likes

#25

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

10615 likes

#26

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

9645 likes

#27

“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

8998 likes

#28

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: dear-john, love, nicholas-sparks, romance, the-notebook

7056 likes

#29

“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

6037 likes

#30

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: love

5600 likes

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