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This reads as a meditation on impermanence, where happiness is beautiful partly because it cannot be held onto. It can be taken to mean that joy should be noticed while it is here, since loss is built into the shape of all good things. It lands in a farewell, a passing season, or any moment when pleasure feels vivid and fragile at once.
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About Nicholas Sparks
American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer
Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He is known for bestselling popular fiction, and for work that has reached a wide international audience. He has 289 quotes on the site. He has published 24 novels and two works of nonfiction. Sixteen of the novels became New York Times bestsellers, and his books have sold more than 130 million copies worldwide in more than 50 languages. Several of his works, including The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle, were adapted into feature films, along with eight other books.
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Explore Impermanence
- “Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.”Jack Kornfield
- “Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is…”Noah Levine
- “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”Alan Watts
Joy: more sayings
- “It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkl…”Robert G. Ingersoll
- “When I was 15 years old, I came in contact with my first ashram, my first spiritual commune, in the form of L…”Swami Dhyan Giten
- “Never let me lose you, Ink. Never let me screw this up. And never think for one moment that I don't love you,…”Dawn Metcalf
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Books by Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook
2004
At First Sight
2006
The Best of Me
2012
Two by Two
2016
Dear John
2006