Quotes About Continuity

That death followed life and life was renewed once again, over and over with the steadiness of the seasons.

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

we are only what we always were

Our persistence in examining the tensions within diversity encourages growth toward our common goal. So often we either ignore the past or romanticize it, render the reason for unity useless or mythic. We forget that the necessary ingredient needed to make the past work for the future is our energy in the present, metabolizing one into the other. Continuity does not happen automatically, nor is it a passive process. The

Poets much teach what they know if we are to continue being

Durante medio siglo, la monarquía [de Alfonso XIII] había tenido un éxito razonable en su papel de moderador y regulando el acceso al Gobierno, y se había convertido en un símbolo de unidad y continuidad, cualidades que, al desaparecer, no tardarían en conducir al país al desastre.

Who we are takes generations to create and doesn't end with death.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. —Madeleine L'Engle

The renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead said that what marks the beginning and assures the continuity of civilization is compassion.

The past is altered, constantly, by our actions in the present.

And later that night to be with my family at dinnertime and have things just be like they always were. That was the amazing part. Things just keep going. We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.

Life doesn't stop for anybody

When the evening was over Alistair Cooke shook my hand goodbye and held it firmly, saying, 'This hand you are shaking once shook the hand of Bertrand Russell.' 'Wow!' I said, duly impressed. 'No, No,' said Cooke, 'It goes further than that. Bertrand Russell knew Robert Browning. Bertrand Russell's aunt danced with Napoleon. That's how close we all are to history. Just a few handshakes away. Never forget that.

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?

I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between.

Ka works and the world moves on.

Life is a wheel, and it always comes back around to where it started.

And, of course, one of the great true facts of the world is this: for every old-timer who dies, there's a new old-timer coming along. And a good story never dies; it is always passed down.

I think so muchmay be it never endswhen this night endsthere's another at handI sleep with oneand wake with onewith everything else onthis life goes on.

Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book.

Storytelling keeps life going.

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.