Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn’t find a way to get her back on time-”that’s permanent.
– Sabaa Tahir
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- You fool, Helene. When you love, there is always more pain. – Sabaa Tahir
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- Nothing was permanent. . . Nothing will be permanent. . . Nothing is permanent. . .~Ramy(n) – Ramy
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- Seeing the enemy as human. A general’s ultimate nightmare. – Sabaa Tahir
- Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword. – Sabaa Tahir
- Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after the failure that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air. – Sabaa Tahir
- I don’t smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing. – Sabaa Tahir
- Elias and Laia are each other’s countermelodies. I am just a dissonant note. – Sabaa Tahir
- There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose. – Sabaa Tahir
- The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things. – Sabaa Tahir
- Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand. – Sabaa Tahir
- She’s still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I’m still wandering lost in my battlefield. – Sabaa Tahir
- there’s more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief. – Pema Chdrn
- It is better to experience temporary discomfort to achieve the dream, than permanent comfort without any fulfillment. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Today’s temporary disappointment means tomorrows permanent appointment. – AuliqIce
- Joy is temporary, Happiness is permanent; for it comes out from positive mind and is an art of tension free heart. – Vikrmn
- The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling. – Billy Graham
- I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. – Mahatma Gandhi
- Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent. – Patrick Hennessey
- A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- [T]he category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity. – Clay Shirky
- Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief. – Hope Mirrlees
- Every fashion is temporary but the concept of fashion is permanent! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- By being rigid, you become temporary; by being flexible, you become permanent! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- …your personality is the only permanent thing in your, ultimately, temporary life…that’s all the more reason to cherish it… – Isabella Koldras
- Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment – Sunday Adelaja
- Never plan to make this world your permanent abode, for it is temporal for all, rather permanent your ideas & purpose here. – AuliqIce
- Life is not permanent problems with the goal of obtaining peace. Its permanent peace with occasional problems. – Rory s
- Life on this planet on its own is temporal. So tell me why you think your problems are permanent. No condition is permanent. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Problem is, though, sooner or later, physical pain, it’s… it’s manageable. See, real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of pain that lasts. – Theo Raeken
- Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. – Terry Pratchett
- If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain -” in time you will move through your pain. – Bryant McGill
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- Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder – Helene Munson
- If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much. – Helene Hanff
- Fear of dying brings humans the greatest pain. Death is implicit in every form of joy. Of course, it also brings the end of pain. – Eliza Granville
- The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing. – Marilena Mexi