Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“Let my possessions vanish; let my honor, my body, livelihood, and everything else pass away. But may my virtuous mind never be lost.”
§ 5.22
Bodhicaryavatara, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
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8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar 685–763Related quotes


“Out of everything I've lost, I miss my mind the most!”

§ 3.12
Bodhicaryavatara, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life

" My own heart let me have more have pity on http://www.bartleby.com/122/47.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”
Variant: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die.
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 343.
Source: Sabriel
Context: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.

“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”

“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”
Mark 13:31, NWT
New Testament, The Gospel of Mark

Je m’entretiens avec moi-même de politique, d’amour, de goût ou de philosophie ; j’abandonne mon esprit à tout son libertinage ; je le laisse maître de suivre la première idée sage ou folle qui se présente … Mes pensées ce sont mes catins.
Variant translations:
My ideas are my whores.
My thoughts are my trollops.
Rameau's Nephew (1762)