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.
Marcus Aurelius

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
Meister Eckhart

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Dwight L. Moody

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Plutarch

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.
Dennis Miller

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
Woody Allen

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.
Woody Allen

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
Jackie Kennedy

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthur

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
Rumi

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl Jung

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke