Quotes About Flux

When we change and grow into new versions of ourselves, we have to tolerate a lot of uncertainty.

Nothing last forever except change

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

And nothing would ever happen if we always stayed the same ["The Sweetness"].

Organs crawl like aphids upon the immobile motor of becoming

Of course, Heraclitus was right. Everything flows; nothing abides.

That as a human being I'm not necessarily static, but... evolving. That I'm supposed to grow and develop, just like the physical world, the planet, the universe.

It is the living nature of resistance. It exists in a constant flux, changing, breeding, metastasizing. All information about it's internal processes is rendered obsolete by revelation.

You know how they say there's only one thing in the universe that's constant?' Jonas started. 'Change. Change is the only constant in the universe. And left alone, all things return to chaos.

The process of history is combustion.

Change is ongoing. Everything changes in some way—size, position, composition, frequency, velocity, thinking, whatever. Every living thing, every bit of matter, all the energy in the universe changes in some way. I don't claim that everything changes in every way, but everything changes in some way.

Change is ongoing. Everything changes in some way—size, position, composition, frequency, velocity, thinking, whatever. Every living thing, every bit of matter, all the energy in the universe changes in some way. I don't claim that everything changes in every way, but everything changes in some way.

Octavia E. Butler

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

They are more than travel hubs: this is a special category of city-state, with a stable location, but citizens in flux.They are airport-republics...(a)n example of an extroverted system,where the constitution is spelled out on every ticket, and where one's boarding pass is one's only identification as a citizen.

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the world changes and remains the same.

Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.

Every thing-become is mortal. Not only peoples, languages, races and Culture are transient.

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

I always thought that whatever I had was temporary.

The world, whose nature is to become other, is committed to becoming, has exposed itself to becoming; it relishes only becoming, yet what it relishes brings fear, and what it fears is pain.10

Life is completely different when you live near a railway station. It feels as if you're just passing through. Everything is temporary. One day or another, you'll hop on a train.

Things change, but they stay the same.