Constant Flux Quotes

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

... life, by definition, is never still.

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

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.

Happiness is a moving target.

Everything changes every day.

The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

The only thing that stays the same is change.

Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.