“You know what the Buddhists say?
Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.”
Variant: Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
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Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent." by Mitch Albom?
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as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10830, 0-309-08699-X, 201]