Maxim
Everything passes; hold things lightly.
“`All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity.”
Buddhism · Ancient (before 200 BCE)
Translation: public-domain translation (Müller)
Watch on YouTube: The School of Life: The Buddha ↗The School of Life introduces the Buddha
Nothing we see stays the same, not our troubles, our triumphs or the world around us. Remembering this can steady us in hard times and keep us gentle in good ones.
Related expressions
“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.”
“Heracleitus is supposed to say that all things are in motion and nothing at rest; he compares them to the stream of a river, and says that you cannot go into the same water twice.”
“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.”
Watch on YouTube: BibleProject: Wisdom of Ecclesiastes ↗BibleProject on the wisdom of Ecclesiastes“Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler.”
Score
Moral Rank 76.9 · Evidence E = 17.23
E = ln(1+3.78) + √3.78 + 3·3.07 + 1.5·3 = 17.23