A Quote by John Green

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

John Green

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John Green
American - Author
Born: August 24, 1977

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

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Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

John Green

Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life-to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don't go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.

Elizabeth Lesser

I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I started becoming religious. Once I became a full-on Hasidic, I stopped everything. I stopped music. I stopped acting.

Matisyahu

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.

Michael Skolnik

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

Moshe Dayan

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

Larry Hagman

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

Dalai Lama

Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart.

Adam Cappa

Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.

Tabitha Suzuma

Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

Gautama Buddha

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

I love it when celebrities fall apart, you want them to fall apart like Charlie Sheen.

Moby

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

Marilyn Ferguson

When did we fall apart? or did you lie from the start?

Lesley Roy

Movies come together and they fall apart. We try to focus on things we love to see. It is, they come together, they fall apart and they come together again and you're with them for a long long time.

Chris Henchy

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