ever-shifting Quotes

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.

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.

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

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

And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day.

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

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

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

In life everything is continually in flux.

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.

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.

You change all the time. Everything changes you.