#impermanence

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#impermanence #insight #mujo #philosophy #stillness

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#impermanence #men

When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#empowerment #impermanence #inspirational #life #motivational

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#circumstance #compromise #goodness #impermanence #inspirational

Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#beauty

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory ↗

— Sam Savage

#impermanence #last #life #memory #life

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#family #impermanence #beauty

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#impermanence #life-and-death #naruto #orochimaru #death

eventually, everything goes away. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life #loss #life

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. ↗

— Robert Frost

#nature #poem #nature