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Quotes About Flux

Identities aren't meant to be permanent. They're like cars: they take us from one place to another. We work, travel, and seek adventure in them until they break down beyond repair. At that point, living well means finding a new model that better suits us for a new moment.
~ Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman
Tendréis que reconocer que a veces, es así como funcionan las cosas en este mundo. Las opiniones de la gente, sus sentimientos, un día van en una dirección y otro día en otra
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The world was changing so fast it was hard to keep up. Grigori had never been inside
~ Ken Follett
Nothing is permanent, except change.
~ Ken Follett
No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.
~ Justina Chen
In a democracy, power is not permanent.
~ Lalu Prasad Yadav
Any capitalism that is worth its name, or its money, is necessarily on the move, and always from within
~ Wolfgang Streeck
The world has a habit of going on.
~ Woodrow Wilson
there is no such thing as permanence or solidity—that every thing and every being in this world is undergoing constant change.
~ David Michie
And like all forms of ecological equilibrium, it's temporary, provisional, contingent.
~ David Quammen
Today's cloud is tomorrow's puddle.
~ David Wong
Chaos is another name for opportunity
~ I-Ching
Like the waves in the ocean, life changes every moment.
~ Debasish Mridha
todo viaja hacia su difuminación lentamente nada más ocurrir y hasta mientras acontece
~ Javier Marías
Timpul, care trece peste toate, r?stoarn? pân? ?i r?sturn?rile, distruge pân? ?i distrugerea. Totul se mi?c?, chiar ?i mi?carea. Ceea ce face ca în cele din urm?, în acest univers agitat ?i imobil, totul s? se transforme mereu ?i nimic s? nu se schimbe niciodat.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
~ Jean Piaget
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
~ Jean Piaget
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough-but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
We move from one invisibility to another.
~ Ali Smith
All's change, but permanence as well"... and continued:   "Truth inside, and outside, truth also; and between each, falsehood that is change, as truth is permanence."   "Truth successively takes shape, one grade above its last presentment...
~ Alice A. Bailey
And I go in, it's just a portal after all. I don't know what's inside. Whatever happens next. Nothing happens; things coalesce then melt again
~ Alice Notley