{"quotes":[{"text":"Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened,like winter, which even now is passing.For beneath the winter is a winter so endlessthat to survive it at all is a triumph of the heart.Be forever dead in Eurydice, and climb back singing.Climb praising as you return to connection.Here among the disappearing, in the realm of the transient,be a ringing glass that shatters as it rings.Be. And, at the same time, know what it is not to be.The emptiness inside you allows you to vibratein full resonance with your world. Use it for once.To all that has run its course, and to the vast unsayablenumbers of beings abounding in Nature,add yourself gladly, and cancel the cost.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["anita-barrows","impermanence","in-praise-of-mortality","joanna-macy","mortality","praise"],"id":4926,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"The bells of the Gion monastery in India echo with the warning that all things are impermanent. The blossoms of the sala trees teach us through their hues that what flourishes must fade. The proud do not prevail for long but vanish like a spring night’s dream. In time the mighty, too, succumb: all are dust before the wind.","author":"Heike","tags":["buddhism","impermanence","japanese"],"id":6784,"author_id":"Heike"},{"text":"Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably with the knowledge that I’ll die alone, and I feel nothing so strongly as my embrace of my nothingness. Most days don’t really matter, because there is only this day, and right now I feel like fear is all I am. I don’t want you to leave. Just let me pretend you won’t.'He wrapped his arms around me and we slept. For that night, we would last forever.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["desire","embrace","fear","forever","heartache","impermanence","infinite","leaving","loneliness","love","lust","passion","snuggle","want"],"id":12554,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.","author":"Seneca","tags":["future","impermanence","life","past","present"],"id":20860,"author_id":"Seneca"},{"text":"Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi').","author":"Dōgen","tags":["buddhism","impermanence","zen"],"id":22106,"author_id":"D%C5%8Dgen"},{"text":"When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["action","empowerment","impermanence","inspirational","life","motivational","success"],"id":24507,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"The Jetavana Temple bells ring the passing of all things. Twinned sala trees, white in full flower, declare the great man's certain fall. The arrogant do not long endure: They are like a dream one night in spring. The bold and brave perish in the end:They are as dust before the wind.","author":"Royall Tyler","tags":["death","existence","impermanence","life"],"id":25301,"author_id":"Royall+Tyler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Sam Savage","tags":["forever","impermanence","last","life","memory"],"id":38997,"author_id":"Sam+Savage"},{"text":"Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["immortality","impermanence","indestructibility","mortality","nature"],"id":43920,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":". . .Our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees—then, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance—our wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind. . .","author":"John Daniel Thieme","tags":["confession","fleeting","futility","ignoring","impermanence","love","meaningless","uselessness","whispering","whispers","wind","words"],"id":44526,"author_id":"John+Daniel+Thieme"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":85,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}