14 quotes found
“Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.”
“It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back...”
“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the relationship. Whats more, were encouraged to accept the impermanence ...”
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
“Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you t...”
“.....we find ourselves inhabitants of the last few living cells of a dying god”
“Seize the day, then let it go.”
“Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.”
“But because day at her dawning hours hath so bewitched me, must I yet love her when glutted with triumph she settles to garish noon? . . . Who dares call me turncoat, who do but follow now as I hav...”
“Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end.”
“Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.”
“We say the rarajipari is the game of life, Angel said. You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.”
