Quotes About Continuity

He sido compuesto de causa formal y materia; ninguno de esos dos elementos acabará en el no ser, del mismo modo que tampoco surgieron del no ser. Por consiguiente, cualquier parte mía será asignada por transformación a una parte del universo; a su vez aquélla se transformará en otra parte del universo, y así hasta el infinito.

A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.

Todo ser, en cierto modo, es el germen de otro que de él ha de renacer. Pero tú no sueles imaginarte más semillas que las que se echan en la tierra o en la matriz: y esto es ser demasiado ingenuo.

In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? Always

Look at the past—empire succeeding empire—and from that, extrapolate the future: the same thing. No escape from the rhythm of events.

Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

His letters always begin without greeting and end without signature, as if they're part of one single letter, unrolling through time like an endless paper towel.

Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.

The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.

As long as the sun rose each day, as long as they could behold it, there life was secure.

It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.