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That works both ways though. Even the fable where the quote originated had that as a takeaway.

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This. Temporariness is temporary. Soon everything will be permanent.

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I mean the “this too shall pass” part. When people say the quote, usually it’s the kind of person who sees the negative treated differently than they treat the positive.

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It won’t be that way forever though

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I’m paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of

‘Something that will make me sad when I am happy and happy when I am sad’

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The story goes, or the way that I was told, there was a king that always felt too high and then he felt too low. And so he called all his wise men to the hall, and he begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls. But here’s the thing—they came back with a ring. It was simple, and was plainly unbefitting of a king, and engraved in black—well it had no front or back, but there were words around the band that said “just know this too shall pass.”

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