Everlasting Quotes

• Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Long, Matter

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.54, Macmillan

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• All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

  John Donne

  Running, Kings, Elderly

  John Donne (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Strong, Grateful, Heart

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• People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Space, People, World

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.86, Macmillan

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• It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

  Picabo Street

  Dream, Thinking, Goal

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• While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Sarah Vowell

  Happiness, Believe, Long

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Jul 04, 2012

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• To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Wicked, Age, Millennials

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• Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

  Franz Werfel

  Art, Humanity, Religion

  Franz Werfel (2017). “Between Heaven and Earth”, p.215, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

  William James

  Oneness, Differences, Achievement

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.378, Library of America

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• Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

  Marianne Moore

  Beauty, Dust

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin

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• Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Faces, Problem, Vow

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• One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Trying, Mediocrity, Literature

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Household papers and stories”

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• Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

  Michael Novak

  Long, Liberty, Lasts

  Interview with Peter and Helen Evans, www.orthodoxytoday.org. September 17, 2005.

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• It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Freedom, Light, Two

  "Essays on Goethe (Goethe's Works)". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1888.

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

  Strength, Music, Beauty

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• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Mother, War

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• Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Form, Rounds

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Book, Philosophical, Reading

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• The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

  John Milton

  Lonely, Stars, Lying

  'Comus' (1637) l. 195

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• Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Education, Children

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.

  Duane Chapman

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.

  Ray Comfort

  Names, Giving, Spirit

  "Ray Comfort: The Evidence Bible". Interview with Craig von Buseck, www.cbn.com.

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• If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.

  Charles Stanley

  Inspirational, Funny, Thinking

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