Eternity Quotes

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  Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “The Victory Of Patience”

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  Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspiring, Karma, Good Life

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Henry Van Dyke, “Time Is”

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• What nature creates has eternity in it.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Nature

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …about Everything". Interview with Richard Burgin, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

  Saint Augustine

  Passing Away, Doe

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  A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Photography, Brother, Photographer

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• There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Beauty, God, Christian

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• Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Glimpse, Engagement

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• What we do in life ripples in eternity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ripple

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• It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

  Helen Keller

  Science, Unseen Things, Giving

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.70, Om Books International

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• A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Music, Reflection, Circles

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• Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Losing A Loved One, Home

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  Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

  Michael Ende

  Calendars, Littles, Hours

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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• Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Nature

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 72

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• Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ocean, Doe, Taste

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• All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Childishness, Eternal

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Acceptance, Clouds

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1594, Library of Alexandria

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• Lives in eternity's sun rise.

  William Blake

  Artist, Sun, Sun Rise

  'MS Note-Book' p. 99 'Several Questions Answered' - "He who binds to himself a joy"

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• We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Positive, Dream, Time

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• There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Light, Views

  "New Maps of Hyperspace". Terence McKenna's speech at the Berkeley Institute for the Study of Consciousness (1984) as quoted in "Magical Blend Magazine", Issue #22, April 1989.

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

  Clayton Christensen

  Blessed, Vision, Important

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