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Best advice ever!!!


Best advice ever!!!




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  • NickMoore30

    A neighbor on my street has a sign on her tree that says “this too shall pass.” It’s an amazing reminder I frequently need in hard times.

  • UnacceptableOrgasm

    One of my favorite poems:

    The King’s Ring

    by Theodore Tilton

    Once in Persia reigned a King,

    Who upon his signet ring

    Graved a maxim true and wise,

    Which, if held before his eyes,

    Gave him counsel, at a glance,

    Fit for every change or chance:

    Solemn words, and these are they:

    ‘Even this shall pass away!’

    Trains of camels through the sand

    Brought him gems from Samarcand;

    Fleets of galleys through the seas

    Brought him pearls to rival these.

    But he counted little gain

    Treasures of the mine or main.

    What is wealth? the King would say;

    ‘Even this shall pass away.’

    In the revels of his court,

    At the zenith of the sport,

    When the palms of all his guests

    Burned with clapping at his jests,

    He, amid his figs and wine,

    Cried, O loving friends of mine!

    Pleasure comes, but not to stay:

    ‘Even this shall pass away.’

    Lady fairest ever seen

    Was the bride he crowned his queen.

    Pillowed on the marriage-bed,

    Whispering to his soul, he said,

    Though a bridegroom never pressed

    Dearer bosom to his breast,

    Mortal flesh must come to clay:

    ‘Even this shall pass away.’

    Fighting on a furious field,

    Once a javelin pierced his shield.

    Soldiers with a loud lament

    Bore him bleeding to his tent.

    Groaning from his tortured side,

    Pain is hard to bear, he cried,

    But with patience day by day,

    ‘Even this shall pass away.’

    Towering in the public square

    Twenty cubits in the air,

    Rose his statue carved in stone.

    Then the King, disguised, unknown,

    Gazing at his sculptured name,

    Asked himself,And what is fame?

    Fame is but a slow decay:

    ‘Even this shall pass away.’

    Struck with palsy, sere and old,

    Waiting at the Gates of Gold,

    Spake he with his dying breath,

    Life is done, but what is Death?

    Then, in answer to the King,

    Fell a sunbeam on his ring,

    Showing by a heavenly ray —

    Even this shall pass away.

  • DarkHelmet1976

    When I’m dehydrated and don’t eat enough fiber, and I’m straining to squeeze out a giant log, I think, “this too shall pass.”

  • StopBlockingTheSun

    I have always thought that is a very nihilistic expression.
    This too shall pass. Time erases everything so nothing matters, everything is permitted.

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