Timelessness Quotes

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  Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory — the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness — but the essence is timeless.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Fashion, Essence, Looks

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• If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Eternity, Live In The Present, Unending

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• Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

  King Hussein I

  Beauty, Country, Yesterday

  "The Arab World", Arab Information Center, p. 30, 1965.

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• The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Feelings, Body, Infinity

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.195, Arktos

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• Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that 'yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Time, Memories

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Dancer, Understanding, Process

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Bad Ass, Talking

  "Home". Book by Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, and Julie V. Iovine, p. 43, 1993.

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• Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Infinite Time, Doe

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• Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.

  Ralph Lauren

  Fashion, Integrity, Style

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• The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

  Ella Maillart

  Running, Dying, Woven

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• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Death, Mean

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religion, Duration, Eternal Life

  "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus".

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• Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Stars, Memories

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Music, Years, Cases

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• To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die — to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the moment, so that we utterly "disappear." Thoughts of past, present, or future, of life and death, of this world and the next, are transcended in the superabundance of the now. Time and timelessness coalesce: this is the moment of eternity.

  Philip Kapleau

  Past, Life And Death, Giving

  "The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide".

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• The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.

  Craig Callender

  Time, Pieces, May

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• The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

  Elif Safak

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

  Gerald Durrell

  Children, Dark, Night

  Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins

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• Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Writing, Timeless

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Ocean, Eye, Order

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• Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Design, Durability, Language

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• The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

  C. S. Lewis

  Differences, Infinite, Away From You

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Past, Air, Bird

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