#permanence

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it. ↗

— Norman Granz

#apart #art #art form #attached #form

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #associations #case #complexity #delicacy

A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#impermanence #time #equality

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#inspirational #inspirational

In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains? ↗

— Wayne Muller

#on-loss #life

I have no news of my coming or passing away-- the whole thing happened quicker than a breath; ask no questions of the moth. ↗

— فرید الدین عطار

#mayfly-and-pilgrim #zen #zen

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#human soul #i #indispensable #individual #individual human

To know yourself you must know the transience of your self. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#evolution #impermanence #quantum #self #transience

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#permanence #rest #unchanging #change

Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#beauty