Stevie Jackson Quotes

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

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.

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

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

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

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

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

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

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

Everything changes.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

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

I had to make my history quick because there would be no future, merely a gossamer world blown about on the zeitgeist, till zeitgeist, the wind of the times, is blasted away by kamikaze, the wind of God.

I believe the only thing constant in life is change. That's just the way it is, no?

I know that everything comes to an end. Everything is a phase.

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

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.