#transience

So long as you are allowed to keep it, take care of it as an innkeeper takes care of the property of a guest.

The transitoriness of our existence in no way makes it meaningless. But it does make up our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transient possibilities.

There are few people who are not ashamed of having loved each other when they love no longer.

Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you. It was but yesterday we met in a dream.

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 away.

Pass through this life as an honest traveler, grateful for each inn along the way.

Remember how brief is the span of a mortal life, and how great the abyss of the infinite past and future.