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Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same...You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.


Heraclitus

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are constantly flowing on.
HERACLITUS You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are continually flowing in.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You cannot step into the same river twice.
HERACLITUS You cannot step into the same river twice
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You can't step twice into the same river.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
BUDDHA It is not possible to step twice into the same river
GREEK PROVERB I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
HERACLITUS No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Everything flows; nothing remains.
HERACLITUS No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same...
HERACLITUS Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even s...
ERIC ROTH Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice.
KAMAL RAVIKANT While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on eith...
MAX MULLER The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
LEIGH HUNT Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and wi...
RAY BRADBURY You can never enter the same river twice.
INDIAN PROVERB Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.
HERACLITUS Unfortunately, in the music business everything changes. You'd like to stay at the same label, with ...
IRA DEAN The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher PHILIP K. DICK Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.
CASSANDRA CLARE Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
HERACLITUS Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through ever...
WAYNE DYER Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through ever...
WAYNE DYER Normally everything doesn't go into the dumpster at the same time.
ANDREW CLARK If everything is the same, nothing is special.
LADY STARLIGHT Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for awhile and leave footprints on our h...
UNKNOWN Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time.
LEILA SALES “Nothing ever remains the Same in Life; Pain, Joy or Love.”
MAGED MAHROUS Behold how the stream flows to the sea, and the flowing waters will return no more; thus, my brother...
ALFONSO MARíA DE LIGUORI People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
PAULO COELHO Everything changes but change.
ISRAEL ZANGWILL Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone.
Alas, winds ever change and nothing ...
J.P. ASHMAN Everything is different and nothing is same in the universe.
ZAMAN ALI My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is ...
FERNANDO PESSOA Believe me nothing remains the same. Change is inevitable and is the law of nature. People grow toge...
LATIKA TEOTIA And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predicat...
ARISTOTLE Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; ...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is impo...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG Lands are dormant. Everything flows down to the river and oceans. We're looking at tons and tons of ...
JACOB NG (Fish and Game) do the same thing each survey but conditions change. They don't account for differen...
BARRY CANEVARO There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus.
HERACLITUS How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
ALAN GARNER You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.
VANN CHOW You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.
DASHANNE STOKES Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. A...
ANDREW BOYD Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and...
FRIDA KAHLO Don't push the river; it flows by itself.
BARRY STEVENS I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on...
MARKUS ZUSAK If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disco...
NIECY NASH The world remains ever the same.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The world remains ever the same.
JOHANN VON GOETHE You and your reality are ONE.
When YOU change, everything changes.
GORDANA BIERNAT You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and...
STACEY SNIDER Online, ... if all your pieces look the same, collectors will buy one and move on. I never, ever pai...
JEFF COHEN Leaving everything that makes them who and what they are, leaving because it is no longer possible t...
NOVIOLET BULAWAYO There will never be another like the other. A mother remains like no other... the same with friends ...
DAVID GATATA Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Through this broad street, restless ever,
Ebbs and flows a human tide,
Wave on wave a living ...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER So we decided we'd basically go on tour twice and play the same places.
CONOR OBERST I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
OPRAH WINFREY Everything changes and nothing stands still.
HERACLITUS Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the o...
RICKY MARTIN Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everythi...
DONALD MILLER Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
OSCAR WILDE Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Not everything you meet twice is the truth. Not everything you hear twice is the fact, and not every...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirli...
JOHN MUIR Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and somet...
SUSAN PATRON Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The...
OVID Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The...
OVID The people who go to the Palm change. But when I go into a Palm, it is always the same for me.
BRIAN DENNEHY I could go back but there's no place to go to, ... Nothing will ever be the same.
HAL MILLER My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is ...
FERNANDO PESSOA You don't know how I feel about you, but you know that I do. I from. I feel about you. Knowing that ...
KAYLA RAE If this was the last quote i ever wrote, i'd want you to know that writing this took everything from...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. ...
OVID Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN We are nothing alike, but exactly the same.
KAYLA RAE Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, ...
ROSAMUND LUPTON The thing about love is that you will never run out of it. It's an ever-flowing river. So go ahead a...
KAMAND KOJOURI Searching for nothing
Wondering if I’ll change
I’m trying everything
But everythi...
SULLY ERNA The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing cha...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.
STEVE MARABOLI For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and...
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HERACLITUS Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
HERACLITUS To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and ot...
HERACLITUS Big results require big ambitions.
HERACLITUS Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
HERACLITUS The way up and the way down are one and the same.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his fate.
HERACLITUS Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the rea...
HERACLITUS Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
HERACLITUS One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men ha...
HERACLITUS Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
HERACLITUS Time is a game played beautifully by children.
HERACLITUS It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his guardian divinity.
HERACLITUS The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your pr...
HERACLITUS Change alone is unchanging.
HERACLITUS Nothing endures but change.
HERACLITUS Much learning does not teach understanding.
HERACLITUS No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
HERACLITUS Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
HERACLITUS If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search ...
HERACLITUS Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
HERACLITUS Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
HERACLITUS The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
HERACLITUS It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
HERACLITUS Nature is wont to hide herself.
HERACLITUS If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
HERACLITUS Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light...
HERACLITUS Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
HERACLITUS The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
HERACLITUS God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
HERACLITUS There is nothing permanent except change.
HERACLITUS You cannot step into the same river twice.
HERACLITUS Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his guardian divinity.
HERACLITUS It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys a...
HERACLITUS Character is destiny.
HERACLITUS Bigotry is the sacred disease.
HERACLITUS The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
HERACLITUS Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS The sun is new each day.
HERACLITUS If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or t...
HERACLITUS To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than ...
HERACLITUS Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protr...
HERACLITUS No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same...
HERACLITUS The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themse...
HERACLITUS I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek an...
HERACLITUS No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
HERACLITUS Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.
HERACLITUS Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
HERACLITUS Man's character is his fate.
HERACLITUS Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all thi...
HERACLITUS Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
HERACLITUS You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS The road up and the road down is one and the same.
HERACLITUS All is flux, nothing stays still.
HERACLITUS Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his fate.
HERACLITUS Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all thing...
HERACLITUS Everything flows; nothing remains.
HERACLITUS Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.
HERACLITUS There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus.
HERACLITUS Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
HERACLITUS You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are constantly flowing on.
HERACLITUS Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light...
HERACLITUS Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.
HERACLITUS To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
i...
HERACLITUS Greater dooms win greater destinies.
HERACLITUS If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and diffi...
HERACLITUS The road up and the road down is one and the same.
(ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ...
HERACLITUS Without injustices,
the name of justice
would mean what?
HERACLITUS It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going...
HERACLITUS Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
HERACLITUS People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the citys walls.
HERACLITUS Character is destiny
HERACLITUS Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
HERACLITUS Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
HERACLITUS Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, a...
HERACLITUS All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This princi...
HERACLITUS Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
HERACLITUS War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, other...
HERACLITUS Ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν: I searched myself.
HERACLITUS Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.
HERACLITUS Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.
HERACLITUS One thunderbolt strikes
root through everything
HERACLITUS Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.
HERACLITUS Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within
HERACLITUS Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
HERACLITUS Give me one man
from among ten thousand
if he is the best
HERACLITUS All is flux
HERACLITUS Always having what we want
may not be the best good fortune
Health seems sweetest
aft...
HERACLITUS Many who have learned
from Hesiod the countless names
of gods and monsters
never unde...
HERACLITUS Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are b...
HERACLITUS Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.
HERACLITUS The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.

(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)
HERACLITUS The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony nee...
HERACLITUS The sun is the width of a human foot.
HERACLITUS If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods...
HERACLITUS Everything changes and nothing stands still.
HERACLITUS Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
HERACLITUS The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
HERACLITUS The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign...
HERACLITUS We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
HERACLITUS The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
HERACLITUS The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
HERACLITUS One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through stri...
HERACLITUS You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You can't step twice into the same river.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Character is fate. (Destiny)
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slave...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Nothing endures but change.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Big results require big ambitions.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS To do the same thing over and over is not only boredom; it is to be controlled by rather than to con...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protr...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS All is flux, nothing stays still
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Everything rests by changing.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your pr...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS There is nothing permanent except change.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Much learning does not teach understanding.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS A man's character is his guardian divinity.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all thi...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The road up and the road down is one and the same.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the co...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are continually flowing in.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The way up and the way down are one and the same
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Character is destiny.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and diff...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Out of every 100 men, 10 shouldn't be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, an...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man; it forever was, is, and forever will...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Man is on earth as in an egg
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Man is not made for defeat
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You cannot step into the same river twice
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS People that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things ...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The people should fight for the law as for their city wall
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and want
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Nothing is, everything is becoming.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS