I discovered this quote via a good friend. So much of it resonates with me in a deep and fierce way.
“In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.”
–Anna Sophie Swetchine
This Thursday musing is part of my new series of quotes and pictures that I find inspiring.
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What a great quote – it can twist inside out and loop back again. Poignant if it’s something your heart longs to have remain and then hopeful that whatever the “it” was that has gone is not really lost.
And then, if it’s trouble or sorrow or travails that have come – it’s a comfort to know they won’t stay – so which way does it turn.
A lesson in attachment – or detachment.