Passing Through Quotes

• You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.

  Rumi

  Earth, Passing, Passings

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• Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.

  Robert Fulghum

  Memories, People, Mind

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• We pass through this world but once.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kindness, Helping Others, Giving

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.'

  Jimmy Page

  Angel, Journey, Wings

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• We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the love we give, is all that will endure Just like a rose after the rain Something beautiful remains Tears will leave no stains Time will ease the pain For every life that fades Something beautiful remains

  Tina Turner

  Beautiful, Stars, Pain

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• The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

  Michael Pollan

  Environment, Passing, Passings

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• We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

  Hal Sutton

  Life, Motivational, Mean

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• Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Space, Infinity, Dimensions

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1979). “Discourses of Iqbal”

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• We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Fabric, Shapes

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

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• Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Nature

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 72

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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 of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Memories, Past, Mind

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

  Rajneesh

  Reality, Fire, Meditation

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• Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'

  Dave Ramsey

  Mind, Poor, Broke

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from Oct 26, 2009

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• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Native American, Medicine

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Rays, Moments

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (2008). “The Marsh of Gold: Pasternak's Writings on Inspiration and Creation”, p.162, Academic Studies PRess

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• You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.

  Andrew Zuckerman

  Motivational, Wonderful, Passing

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• The dyad gets its name from passing through or asunder; for the dyad is the first to have separated itself from the monad, whence also it is called "daring." For when the monad manifests unification, the dyad steals in and manifests separation.

  Iamblichus

  Names, Firsts, Separation

  "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield: "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.

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• ... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.

  Neal Stephenson

  Hammers, Thumbs, Alive

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• This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through.

  Albert E. Brumley

  Home, World, Passing

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• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Media, People

  "Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

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• When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

  Eric Cantona

  Passing, Difficult, Passings

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• When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Eye, Home

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

  Gene Simmons

  Being Happy, Selfish, People

  "This much I know" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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• Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Humility, Height, Spirit

  Rudolf Steiner (2015). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.5, RSP

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