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Quotes About Flux

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
~ Frida Kahlo
Reality is a flux, an endless becoming that is beyond words and language - all language is metaphor, useful to us but ultimately detached from reality.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
That the world is not striving toward a stable condition is the only thing that has been proved. Consequently, one must conceive its climatic conditions in such a way that it is not a condition of equilibrium.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Only those who continue to change remain my kin
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is important to accept that the world is not in any way striving toward a stable condition, equilibrium or eternal sunshine.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.
~ Teresa de Lauretis
Things happen. Things change. It's part of life.
~ Mike Budenholzer
In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
~ Roscoe Pound
But you need to realize that we are constantly in flux, and everything changes constantly, even you. You're always in a state of 'becoming'. There is no point in grabbing onto anything – people, money, clothes, stuff. No point. There is no safety anywhere because everything is the unknown. And
~ Ruby Wax
The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.
~ Ruskin Bond
My whole life had been a chronology of -- changes .
~ Malcolm X
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
~ Marcus Aurelius
In the life of man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, and his fame doubtful. In short, all that is of the body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapours; life a warfare, a brief sojourning in an alien land;and after repute, oblivion. Where, then, can man find the power to guide and guard his steps? In one thing and one alone: the love of knowledge.
~ Marcus Aurelius
In no great while you will be no one and nowhere, and nothing that you now behold will be in existence, nor will anyone now alive. For it is in the nature of all things to change and alter and perish, so that others may arise in their turn.
~ Marcus Aurelius
All is change. You yourself are continuously changing and being destroyed bit by bit. So is the whole universe.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The world is maintained by change—in the elements and in the things they compose. That
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. 43.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold?
~ Marcus Aurelius
All parts of the world, (all things I mean that are contained within the whole world), must of necessity at some time or other come to corruption. Alteration I should say, to speak truly and properly; but that I may be the better understood, I am content at this time to use that more common word.
~ Marcus Aurelius