Permanence Quotes - Page 2

• We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

  Mooji

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

  Norman Granz

  Art, Thinking, Jazz

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• Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

  Tryon Edwards

  Law, Facts, Assuming

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.434, Ravenio Books

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• Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

  George William Curtis

  Memorial Day, Memorial, Conditions

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• Perhaps I should say that in general there are three solutions to such a situation. I mean not only in Holland, but everywhere where there are minority groups: in America, in Vietnam with the Chinese. Everywhere there is the same problem. But there are fundamentally three, actually only two possible solutions. A possible solution is that the despised minority is able to establish its own state somewhere else. The other solution is a higher or lesser degree of assimilation. And the third possibility, which is not a solution at all, is the permanence of the tension and conflict over time.

  Norbert Elias

  Mean, Chinese, Problem

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.

  Elie Wiesel

  Rain, Thinking, Next Week

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

  Joyce Kilmer

  People, Dying, Terrible

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• All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Waiting

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• From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

  Graham Greene

  Years, Childhood, Forever

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• I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.

  Werner Herzog

  Volcanoes, People, Curious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

  Hugh Casson

  Love Is, Architecture, British

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• Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  War, Men, Essence

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.5, U of Nebraska Press

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• A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Giving, Novel

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• Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

  Simone Weil

  Stars, Giving, Tree

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

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• No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flow, Fit, Wave

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.429, Macmillan

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• No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.

  Jessie Bernard

  Children, Home, Motherhood

  Jessie Bernard (1975). “The future of motherhood”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lost Friendship, And Love, Esteem

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.194

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• Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent

  Tony Robbins

  Failure, Adversity, Achievement

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2017

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• Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Life, Change, Happiness

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• Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Time, Book

  Sesames and Lilies "Of Kings' Treasuries" (1865)

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• But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

  Gayle Forman

  Cutting, Night, Wish

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• Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

  Richard Ford

  Art, Children, Real

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• Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Funny, Change

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• In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Change, Attachment, Wish

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.162, Penguin

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• People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

  Nora Roberts

  Relationship, Work, People

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Vision In White”, p.203, Penguin

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