Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Change is the nature of all objective things.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

Everything changes, nothing is lost.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

Look abroad thro' Nature's range. Nature's mighty law is change.

Everything has a cycle and a season.

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

Nothing is permanent but change.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

Nought may endure but Mutability.

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.