Passings Quotes

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The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series… — Henepola Gunaratana
Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by — Blaine Hogan
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. — Mignon McLaughlin
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. — Eric Hoffer
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as… — John Dewey
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art… — Robert Kennedy
We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on… — William Hazlitt
Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the… — Erica Jong
We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away. — Rajneesh
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. — Abraham Lincoln
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn… — Samuel Johnson
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents… — Walter Savage Landor
There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard.… — Nelson DeMille
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth… — Michael Josephson
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new… — Alfred North Whitehead
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of… — Matthew Simpson
The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer… — James Gleick
With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more. — Amy Tan
Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an… — Arianna Huffington
Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the… — Joyce Carol Oates
I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like… — Will Oldham
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities. — Jared Polis
The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in… — Lucas Papademos

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