Eternal Quotes - Page 10

• Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Moon, Worry, Anxiety

  Malcolm Lowry, Kathleen Dorothy Scherf, Chris Ackerley (1992). “The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry”, p.177, UBC Press

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• Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole - such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life - the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation, the at-onement.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Law, Differences, Giving

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.40, Penn State Press

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• It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Spiritual, Art

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• Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve to convey to others our musical expressions. Words will often pave the way for the more subtle operations of music, and unlock the treasures which sound alone can rifle, and hence the eternal popularity of song.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Song, Expression, Musical

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1872). “Music and Morals”, p.246

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• I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

  Brittany Murphy

  Happiness, Choices, Want

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• To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Grief, Would Be, Ridiculous

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.

  Nellie Melba

  Beautiful, Song, Art

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• The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Suffering

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• The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.

  Alexander Zinoviev

  Men, Evil, Giving

  "Gorbachevism". Book by Gorbachevism, 5th article, 1988.

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• we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will so trouble the divine harmonies that in the rebound we shall find each man his own hell! The sooner we arrive at this knowledge, the sooner we take the certainty to our souls, the sooner do our lives begin to assume the square allotted to us.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Men, Squares, Law

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• People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.

  Mabel Seeley

  People, Fine, Possession

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• The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Sky, Afterlife, Pie

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• Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

  Robert Boyle

  Understanding, Darkness, Eternity

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• God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation--preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul--forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

  Herrick Johnson

  Christian, Perfect, Joy

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• [On Paris:] It exists, constant, eternal, surrounding us who live in it, and it is in us. We love it or hate it, but we cannot escape it. It is a circle of associations in which man exists, being himself a circle of associations. Having entered it and come out of it we are not what we were before knowing it: it devoured us, we devoured it, and the problem is not did we or didn't we want it. We consumed each other. It courses in our blood.

  Nina Berberova

  Hate, Men, Paris

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• O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

  Clare of Assisi

  Blessed, Riches, Poverty

  Saint Clare (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong (2006). “The Lady: Clare of Assisi : Early Documents”, p.22, New City Press

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• The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

  Saib Tabrizi

  Sea, Understanding, Ignorant

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• Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the gods of that family. The cult was handed down from father to son, from generation to generation, and could not be lost without condemning the whole series of ancestors to eternal misery.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Father, Son, Peculiar

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• In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  War, Men, Gambling

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Preface To The First Edition, 1977.

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• In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.

  African Spir

  World, This World, Ideals

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 53), 1937.

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• Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Horse, Race, Talking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.194

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• To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Twilight, Doors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.473

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• The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

  Deborah Norville

  Scripture, God's Plan, Eternal Life

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