Carried away Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

— Paul Cezanne

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl…

— Matthew Simpson

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us…

— Samuel Johnson

“But with one exception, all things pass from this world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument…

— Dean Koontz

All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.

— Laozi

The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

— Lucian

All things flourish, and each returns to its source.

— Laozi

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of…

— Marcel Proust

Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than…

— Nikola Tesla

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the…

— Ariel Garten