Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.

Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don't cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life.

Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last. Karen kingsbury # Leaving

Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

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

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.

People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives, and we stop having aspirations for being in a definite state, we know life better and are able to enjoy it better.

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.

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Only love and death will change all things.