Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not."
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Impermanence
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet, Novelist
"Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?"
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet, Novelist
"the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance."
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death."
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