“If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?”

“Good thing or bad thing must surely come to an end but absoluety nothing last forever”

“It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it's just a blink.”

“Thanks to these eyes...I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you have to do is appreciate things from a different perspective Once I realized the things we take for granted are really miracles, I came to see everything in it's precious, empheral beauty. ..... I love this world.”

“We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence.”

“My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.”