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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.
Nhat Hanh
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
Dogen
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The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.
Stephanie Mills
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Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlitt
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the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
Jack Kornfield
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
Gaston Bachelard
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.
Ellen Glasgow
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
Gregory Maguire
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Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.
Mary McMullen
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In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.
Ursula Bloom
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To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
Pema Chodron