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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Book, Philosophical, Reading

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, August, Years

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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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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• Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our insignificant life, which yet is the work of the Creator's hands, and the purchase of the Redeemer's blood, before the Eternal and All-Merciful, that we may learn the manners of a higher sphere, and fit ourselves for companionship with saints and angels, and for the everlasting sight of the face of God.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Prayer, Angel, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 457. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

  Paul Cezanne

  Book, Giving, Way

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 68, in: 'What I know or have seen of his life', 1991.

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• I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

  Dave Eggers

  Beautiful, Up North, Chicago

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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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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• No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.

  William Mountford

  Men, Shadow Of Death, Valleys

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.471

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• Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Self, Discipline, Triumph

  Entry in the journal for July 23, 1875. "The Walk With God". Book by Julia Ward Howe, 1919.

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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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• Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life." My friend, that is worth more than all the feeling you can have in a life-time.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Feelings, Condemnation, Life Time

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.109, Moody Publishers

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• In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Imagination, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.42, Lulu.com

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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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• 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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• 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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