Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
—singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson

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Long live impudence! It's my guardian angel in this world.
—Albert Einstein

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Long live freedom, and damn the ideologies.
—Robinson Jeffers

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Long live the sacred art of believing in nothing and loving everything.
—the woman on the park bench I overheard talking to her cat

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Long live also the forward march of the common people in all the lands towards their just and true inheritance, and towards the broader and fuller age.
—Winston Churchill

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Long live all the magic we made.
—Taylor Swift

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Long live diversity, long live the earth!
—Edward Abbey

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Long live the rose that grew from concrete.
—Tupac Shakur

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Long live our memory of the future.
—my friend Jessamin Werrevo

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Long live the pioneers, rebels, and mutineers.
—X Ambassadors

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Long live the weeds.
—poet Theodore Roethke

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Long live your soul and may I see you do great in life.
—Hallmark birthday card

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Live long and prosper.
—Spock

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Long live wanting to dwell excitedly in this beautiful garden of mysteries and knowing it as a beginner.
—poet Anah-Karelia Coates

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Long live transfinite mountains, the hollow earth, time machines, fractal writing, aliens, dada, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, teleportation, artificial reality, robots, pod people, hylozoism, endless shrinking, intelligent goo, antigravity, surrealism, software highs, two-dimensional time, gnarly computation, the art of photo composition, pleasure zappers, nanomachines, mind viruses, hyperspace, monsters from the deep and, of course, always and forever, the attack of the giant ants!
—science fiction author Rudy Rucker

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Long live everything and everyone I forgot to love.
—my neighbor Alicia Vasquez

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Thich Nhat Hanh has the last word: We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible.
If a grain of corn is not impermanent, it can never be transformed into a stalk of corn. If the stalk were not impermanent, it could never provide us with the ear of corn we eat.

If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest.

So instead of complaining about impermanence, we should say, "Warm welcome and long live impermanence."