Maureen Johnson Quotes

To-day is always different from yesterday.

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

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

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.

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.

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

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

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. 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. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

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

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.

You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

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.

Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.

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

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.