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Nothing ever goes away
BARRY COMMONER Nothing ever goes away.
BARRY COMMONER Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
PAUL TERRY Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.
SARAH OCKLER We don't want people to feel sorry for us. It was an unfortunate event that has forever changed our ...
KRISTEN LUNDGREN We're not finishing when we need to finish, but we finish when it counts. The kids know how to play ...
DON HELVEY You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
PEMA CHöDRöN As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. Howeve...
PEMA CHöDRöN We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things reall...
PEMA CHöDRöN We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwoo...
PEMA CHöDRöN WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we l...
PEMA CHöDRöN If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell...
PEMA CHöDRöN Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel...
PEMA CHöDRöN The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is t...
PEMA CHöDRöN PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.
PEMA CHöDRöN What we call obstacles are really the way the world and our entire experience teach us where we’re...
PEMA CHöDRöN When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we st...
PEMA CHöDRöN We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless o...
PEMA CHöDRöN …feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, i...
PEMA CHöDRöN The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
PEMA CHöDRöN Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equ...
PEMA CHöDRöN We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, a...
PEMA CHöDRöN If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
PEMA CHöDRöN To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everyth...
PEMA CHöDRöN When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle a...
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PEMA CHöDRöN The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . ...
PEMA CHöDRöN Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be�...
PEMA CHöDRöN Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth
PEMA CHöDRöN Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, ...
PEMA CHöDRöN Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not.....
PEMA CHöDRöN Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at...
PEMA CHöDRöN Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.
PEMA CHöDRöN I will not know peace until this storm dies off or goes away forever
JESUS BARRAZA Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY He talks to me about what I need to know, ... Stuff to look out for. Just to watch out and make sure...
LASTINGS MILLEDGE What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its o...
ALEX MILLER ...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is...
ALLY CARTER I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has eve...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flex...
PAUL BLOOM The beauty was nothing made sense. We were complex. We were intricate. We were designed with flaws w...
DOMINIC RICCITELLO Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It let's us know where we're at and what we need to work on.
DARRELL LANGFORD What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS He taught us all we need to know to be successful. We're a family and coach Dustin is the father tha...
JULIUS THOMAS Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but ...
BELL HOOKS It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need ...
VERONICA ROTH If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of...
DANIEL TAMMET It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from can...
DAVID HAYDEN What this taught us is that in three weeks, the state meet is going to be close. This prepared us fo...
DREW YOAKUM Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.
JENNY DISKI Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain
AESCHYLUS God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
DEYTH BANGER Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.
CHIP KIDD We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.
IRENE TOMKINSON If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.
SEANAN MCGUIRE The housing market has carried us for five years. As that carrying goes away, it will have an impact...
KARL CASE We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need ...
VERONICA ROTH We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.
THOMAS S. MONSON Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away
SOPHOCLES I think this whole road trip has pretty much built character on our team. It?s brought us close toge...
BARBARA TURNER Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
L.M. MONTGOMERY The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN There are people we can't live without, but who we need to let go. All we can do is to hold onto the...
TERENCE T. GORSKI My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we ca...
BAILEE MADISON In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose b...
JACK KEROUAC Nothing can be taught, everything has to be learned.
SANDRA AL Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without e...
ROBERT SKIDELSKY EDWARD SKIDELSKY What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
GENERAL COLIN POWELL You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
COLIN POWELL Before we give away our land, we need some clarification so we all know exactly what we're buying.
MICHAEL TIERNEY The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY We played pretty well last Friday, but we've had to make some adjustments. We know that JDA has some...
CURT OTT The match last year taught us not to overlook anybody. We didn't really know what to expect from the...
BOB LORENCE We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A sing...
STANISłAW LEM Love that is hoarded moulds at lastUntil we know some dayThe only thing we ever haveIs what we give ...
LOUIS GINSBERG You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us."
Best les...
RICK YANCEY Dropping in, I was more nervous than I've ever been at a contest before. Once you're snowboarding, i...
ELENA HIGHT [Murrow] taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility, and to always, always question author...
FRED FRIENDLY In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. W...
HARLAN COBEN Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded
VIRGINIA WOOLF Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being un...
RUTH REICHL It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know ...
DAVE BARRY Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until ...
JODI PICOULT Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever...
STEVE ERICKSON maybe it's true. maybe we don't know what we have until we've lost it. but, maybe it's also true tha...
UNKOWN I don't know what any of my songs are about, ... I don't know what I'm saying half the time, until I...
KRISTIN HERSH We gave away a $5,200 toilet. It's just the most fantastic toilet you could ever imagine. It has an ...
MICHAEL DAVIES We're not sure what is going to happen when it goes away.
DENTON SANTARELLI Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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