"Everything passes. There is great beauty in..." - Quote by Guy Finley
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.
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“It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.”
“Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.”
“You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.”
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“THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.”
“yet it seemsLife scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,But the torn petals strew the garden plot;And there's but common greenness after that.”
“The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.”