Danielle Steel Quotes

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

An individual human existence should be like a river

You cannot step twice into the same river.

Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?

Life keeps moving, and to try to stay still is like trying to hold grains of sand in your hand.

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

We are always in transition.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

Time is a river without banks.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Nothing is forever except change.

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

I am forever on the way

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

Life is not static. If life were static there would be no need for meditation. The mind would do. Then you could think, and whenever, after many lives, you knocked at the door, the girl would be waiting for you. But life is a flux, a movement. Every moment it is changing and becoming new. If you miss a moment, you have missed.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.