Lasting Quotes - Page 23

• These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Country, Stories, Seeds

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• Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

  Stanislas de Boufflers

  Love, Memories, Flower

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• Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be.

  Carol Tavris

  Lying, Philosophical, Men

  Carol Tavris (1993). “Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex”, Touchstone

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• No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Pain

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• To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

  Harvey Fierstein

  Attitude, Commitment, Goal

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• A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

  Mariama Bâ

  Love, Dream, Men

  "So Long a Letter".

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• These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.

  Stephen Crane

  Dream, Kings, War

  Stephen Crane (1970). “The Works of Stephen Crane Vol. 5: Tales of Adventure”, University of Virginia Press

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• Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

  Alice Waters

  Children, School, Garden

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• The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Dog, Loss, Ties

  Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Kerr Wilson (2002). “Man Meets Dog”, p.135, Psychology Press

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• It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

  Robert Frost

  Reading, Taken, Writing

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• You have people around the country who are benefitting from the steps that we've taken [with Obamacare] and as long as they continue to get helped, then at least I'll know in my own mind that the work we did here had a lasting impact.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Taken, Impact

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

  Chris Prentiss

  Lasting Happiness, Way, Achieve

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.8, BookBaby

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• Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

  Plutarch

  Work, Giving, Ease

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.213, 谷月社

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• Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Feelings, Modesty, Shame

  "Rhetorical Invention", Book II, Section LVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520-21,

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• Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Pain, Failure, Adversity

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  When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting value. That's the meaning of life, it's that simple.

  Temple Grandin

  Simple, Magic, Meaning Of Life

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• All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.

  Brian Tracy

  Way, Wealth, Enriching

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.30, Jaico Publishing House

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• Believing in yourself is essential to creating lasting change and a happy life.

  Tara Stiles

  Believe, Happy Life, Lasting Change

  Tara Stiles (2014). “Make Your Own Rules Diet”, p.52, Hay House, Inc

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• The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

  Mark Nepo

  Real, Practice, Who We Are

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• Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Memorable, Men

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• I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Lasting Happiness, Understanding

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• If you want to create vital, long-lasting love, you must become a master of verbal & nonverbal appreciation

  Gay Hendricks

  Appreciation, Love You, Long

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• At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

  Isabel Allende

  Blood, Imagination, Stronger

  Isabel Allende (2015). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Journey, Men

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

  Linda Chavez

  Success, Art, Creating

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