Jack Kornfield Quotes

Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

I know that everything comes to an end. Everything is a phase.

I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.