Passing Quotes - Page 5

The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

And let its meaning permeate each day. Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

You better...buckle uh down and then tighten up to stop this passing game

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.

The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.