All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ...
GAIL SHEEHY

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WOODY ALLEN

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... When we die we leave behind us all that we have and take with us all that we are.
UNKNOWN One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll!
MARCUS MAYO When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence...
MARIE CURIE We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence...
MARIE CURIE We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away....
PASCAL MERCIER It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enrich...
GERALD COREY In order for us to practice self-control, we must have a goal. We must have something we are saying ...
DANNY SILK What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He mu...
ARTHUR SYMONS What you call dirty and muddy place, is what a pig calls his palace
SOTONYE ANGA Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Caterpillar dun' become butterfly-caterpillar die so butterfly can be. A new thing. We all must let ...
RYAN WINFIELD Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON What we have left behind is beautiful, captivating, and inviting. What lies ahead of us is magnifice...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Humans have taken the wrong sight,they should enjoy life as they won't die one day.Nevertheless,we s...
NISHI DE SILVA There is strength in unity. Have compassion, kindness, and love for one another. Instead of finding ...
AKIROQ BROST Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste
SOTONYE ANGA He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
J.K. ROWLING We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for ...
MARCEL PROUST Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must tak...
A.J. DARKHOLME The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only whe...
A.J. DARKHOLME We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other wa...
CHRIS WOODING The search for a God of our own understanding is one of the most important efforts we will undertake...
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take ...
MARCEL PROUST An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
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JOSEPH EPSTEIN It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. ...
VICTORIA MORAN Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Bec...
KAZUO ISHIGURO We are what we are.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Some of them must leave behind even their identification. All of their food, their money.
DANA GRABER Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for me...
OSCAR WILDE We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear a...
CRISS JAMI Life surrounds us. Each day we witness the plenteous gifts of nature. Even following the most bitter...
KILROY J. OLDSTER We all have the capacity to find the will to do what must be done - even when that which we must do ...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON God doesn't punish us.
We do that all by ourselves.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Be...
SIDNEY JOURARD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presentl...
E.M. FORSTER We must realize that people do not have to conform to one another. We are after all, ultimately beho...
CARLOS WALLACE Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 This matter of "salvation" is, whe...
THOMAS MERTON We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consi...
PAUL AUSTER In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
EMMA GOLDMAN A principled life begins by accepting the evident truth that we must die. Death becomes us. Knowledg...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for compani...
ROSS PARMENTER Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one a...
MIMI KENNEDY We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least som...
LEARNED HAND If we must fight, then let the American People fight and die Bravely with honor, dignity, & pride an...
DWIGHT W. HAYES We leave traces with our energy and vibrations. We leave something of ourselves behind everywhere we...
SASKIA DE BRAUW We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask...
NORMAN MACLEAN It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When...
THOMAS MERTON To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we ...
ELIZABETH BIBESCO To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we ...
ELIZABETH BIBESCO We can't change ourselves, it is Gods strength within us that makes the changes. We must do our part...
DEBRA ROBERTS One Life is about realizing there's no second chances in this one life that we were given to live. S...
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT There is a place we all like to visit and for many of us we forget when to leave. Rutt is a temporar...
JASMINA SIDEROVSKI We must love one another or die.
W. H. AUDEN We must love one another or die.
JACK LEMON We must love one another or die
W.H. AUDEN All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know th...
ELIZABETH BIBESCO To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
THOMAS CAMPBELL To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.
THOMAS CAMPBELL To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
THOMAS CAMPBELL Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is ...
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BRIAN FRANCE

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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