Passing Quotes

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

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

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

You can't get from A to Z by passing up B.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness

Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.

Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

I am evergreen, and with every passing day, I am becoming younger.

Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.

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

The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.