Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

Life is like this: things come and go.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Nothing is permanent.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

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

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

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.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

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

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.