Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it."
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Passing
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious."
Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices."
Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness"
Terry Pratchett
Author
"The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked."
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"In music I feel most deeply the passing of things."
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"The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days."
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"Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle."
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"There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist."
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"I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it."
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"Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes."
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"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."
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"Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!"
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"I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing."
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"... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through"
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"Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing."
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"There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman."
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"The internet is just a passing fad."
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"A power is passing from the earth."
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"You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad?"
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"I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by."
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time."
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"How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out."
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"Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining."
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"Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors."
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