Quotes About Lasting

At the end of the day, our work is what endures.

The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

G'Kar: I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.

the best use of one's life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. Life's value is not its duration but its donation—not how long we live but how fully and how well.1

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

The villain is the character that the people remember.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.

What do you want want to be remembered for?" she asked tartly. He slowly shook his head. "I just want to be remembered.

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.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

It's a world of permanence

Well, as long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

As a boy, all I ever wanted was this: a life dedicated to art; every idea, every breath an artistic gesture. And here is this girl before me, blowing on her hands to keep warm. And why am I so worried it's not going to last?

Friendships never grow old; they only last longer and gets newer and fresher everyday.

When you protect and keep friendships with you till you're old, you'll take them into eternity.

All lasting growth requires awareness.

Three propositions of a survivor: That hell is a denial of the ordinary; that nothing lasts; that clean white paper waiting under a pen is the gift beyond history and hurt and heaven. (1959).

All I know is I kept it real. Even if u didn't understand, I know it was somethin' you could feel. And that's all I ask, cause things like this don't last. But the memories I give you, I know you'll dream of forever. We didn't make it, but our hearts will live eternally together.

Friends come and go, but true friends leave footprints in your heart.

The flowers will die, the sun will set, but you are someone I'll never forget. Your name's too precious, it will never grow old, it's engraved in my heart with letters of gold.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him