Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Present Temporality Mindfulness Gratitude Impermanence The only thing you ever have is now.

Eckhart Tolle

Reality Illusion Impermanence Existence All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Emotion Music Reflection Impermanence Self-awareness Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Frank Ocean

Impermanence Uncertainty Possessions Happiness Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Change Impermanence Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus

Change Time Impermanence You cannot step into the same river twice.

Heraclitus

Change Time Flow Impermanence You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Heraclitus

Impermanence Nostalgia Change Anticipation Emotion The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Bob Marley

Wealth Fear Anxiety Attachment Impermanence Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

Beauty Eternity Death Impermanence Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Eugene Ionesco