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What's your favorite profound quote? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This too shall pass.

No matter how good or bad your life is, there will ways be change.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That works both ways though. Even the fable where the quote originated had that as a takeaway.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This. Temporariness is temporary. Soon everything will be permanent.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean the "this too shall pass" part. When people say the quote, usually it's the kind of person who sees the negative treated differently than they treat the positive.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

It won’t be that way forever though

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of

'Something that will make me sad when I am happy and happy when I am sad'

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

The story goes, or the way that I was told, there was a king that always felt too high and then he felt too low. And so he called all his wise men to the hall, and he begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls. But here's the thing—they came back with a ring. It was simple, and was plainly unbefitting of a king, and engraved in black—well it had no front or back, but there were words around the band that said "just know this too shall pass."