Quotes Tagged With :permanence

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Impermanence and selflessness are not negative aspect of life, but the very foundation on which life....

Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then....

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead....

But because day at her dawning hours hath so bewitched me, must I yet love her when glutted with triumph....

A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite....

For, dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true?Cling to it long enough, and not....

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened,like winter, which even now is passing.For beneath....

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer....