Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

Impermanence is the law of the universe.

Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

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