Quotes About Flux

Change alone is unchanging.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

and very broadly, the problem of reducing human misery by modifying social institutions. It is a problem that, ever reshaping itself, eludes sharper definition; for misery is related to desire, and desire is personal and in perpetual flux: each of us

In the memorable words of Professor Roy Baumeister, 'Life is change that yearns for stability

Nothing stands still. Things are either...

He was always on the point of 'going away', where it didn't seem to matter...

Between stations there was a gray shudder beyond the windows of the silent train. Not as of surfaces rushing past, but as if particulate matter were being vibrated there at some crucial rate, just prior to the emergence of a new order of being. Chia and Masahiko

The first couple of times she had come here, she had been sure that he changed overnight, that the shards of physiognomy that made up his whole reorganized when no one was looking. She became frightened of her commission. She wondered hysterically if it was like a task in a moral children's tale, if she was to be punished for some nebulous sin by striving to freeze in time a body in flux, forever too afraid to say anything, starting each day from the beginning all over again.

All things in this world change and pass away— some after many years, some overnight.

For a while, it was a time of comings and

The truth changes all the time.

Darwin's theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled—he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

Life is everything. Life is God. Everything is in flux and movement, and this movement is God. And while there is life there is pleasure in being conscious of the Godhead. To love life is to love God. The hardest and the most blessed thing is to love this life even in suffering, innocent suffering.

You can't put a dent in impermanence.

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

Except it'll still be summer," Plum said. "Backward seasons.

The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it's head.

The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.