Quotes About Continuity

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

This day Time winds th' exhausted chain,To run the twelvemonth's length again.

I light my candle from their torches.

It involves the passage to the new leader of something of the authority possessed by his predecessor, the general recognition of him as rightful head of the political community.

Consciousness, like matter, like energy, is preserved.

Things that happened hundreds of years ago are very much a part of your thinking right now...The past lives in us.

The past often has elements worth appropriating, qualities that would be foolish to reject out of a need to distinguish yourself.... Making a display of doing things differently from your predecessor can make you seem childish and in fact out of control, unless your actions have a logic of their own.

The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

Continuity provides stability, and stability brings prosperity

There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

Science works with chunks and bits and pieces of things with the continuity presumed, and DeWeese works only with the continuities of things with the chunks and bits and pieces presumed.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future.

All items listed above belong in the world In which all things are continuous, And are parts of the original dream which I am now trying to discover the logic of. This Is the process whereby pain of the past in its pastness May be converted into the future tense Of joy. I Am Dreaming of a White Christmas: The Natural History of a Vision (1974)

I had not understood then what I think I have now come to understand: that we can keep the past only by having the future, for they are forever tied together. Therefore

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.

It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.

Lupita supo que nunca había dejado de amar. Que ella vivía desde el inicio de los tiempos y que desde ese momento ella amó cada partícula que se conectó con otra. Definitivamente ella amó, ella amaba y ella seguiría amando.

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.