Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.