Quotes About Flux

There is no single entity whose identity is changeless. All things are constantly changing. Nothing endures forever or contains a changeless element called a self.

Things cannot stay the same because they are influenced by everything else, everything that is not itself.

Impermanence means that everything changes and that nothing remains the same in any consecutive moments. And although things change every moment, they still cannot be accurately described as the same or as different from what they were a moment ago.

All phenomena are neither produced nor destroyed, because they are in a constant process of manifesting.

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

impermanence of things and how nothing stayed the same no matter how much you wanted it to.

I love to watch times change!

Nothing changes and everything does.

The only constant was change.

We are in the interstices. In the intervals. We are that which moves between the spaces. Which conjures up the spaces.

No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.

Frankie had always played the same songs, but they had nonetheless always been different, changing in a thousand different ways that Kevin could scarcely name.

Just remember that life is made up of change. We can't run away from it.

History's kaleidoscope worked its permutations, its pace ever faster, approaching some unknown crescendo.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

It's always ugly in the middle. At the root of transition is "transit," a voyage from one place to another. As in any voyage, there is a departure, a disorienting time of travel and, finally, a destination. Transitions guru William Bridges calls the time between endings and new beginnings the "neutral zone," a "neither here nor there" psychological space where identities are in flux and people feel they have lost the ground beneath their feet.

It was just a stage I was going through.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.' Mathis

He was discovering that being in love was not a steady state, but a matter of fresh surges or waves, and he was experiencing one now.

People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.