Impermanence
& change

Oh, my life
is changing everyday
in every possible way

Cranberries

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One never steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and one is not the same person.

―Heraclitus

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It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

―Thich Nhat Hanh

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Our lives are written in disappearing ink.

―Michelle Cliff

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This too shall pass.

―Unknown

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Change is the only constant.

―Heraclitus

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Change is just the way things are.

―Buddhist saying

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You can't be what you were
So you better start being
Just what you are

Fugazi

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Your projects will go unfinished.

—Chögyam Trungpa

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Thanks to impermanence,
everything is possible.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Poem: Sunset

Mono no aware

Sōji no nochi no fūkei/掃除の後の風景

The only constant

17 poems about change

Waves of impermanence

Lessons from a wildfire

Impermanence is buddha nature

A taste of impermanence

Think about your death and live better

What miscarriage taught me about love and impermanence

Poem: Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore