Quotes About Continuity

To pay homeage to our past is the only gesture that also includes the future.

Borac život iznova zapo?inje svakog trenutka, kako ga i okon?ava.

The past isn't in the past. It's always with us. In our history. Our minds, our blood.

Beyond that he was a ghost of Uganda; in this nation of his birth he was under a death sentence for the simple crime of having lived. And he was the ghost of his father's dream of security and continuity, there was no security, and this age was the enemy of continuity. Every man stands on the freight-car roof. We fall and fall, our feet planted on the solid surface, and the only question is how long before we hit.

Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

History is one damn thing after another.

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

Funk is the unending cycle of life.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

I remembered when he'd explained the concept of infinity to me. Immeasurable, one moment stretching out to the next.

And then there was Jeremiah. When I looked at Jeremiah, I saw past, present, and future.

Although history is concerned with the past, it is conducted in the present.

God did not simply create and then walk away. He constantly sustains that which He created.

Which is the point: the future looks a lot more like the past than you might expect.

This was the end of Jewish history as a separate