Quotes About Lasting

Donations and charities are the vaccines against the disease of poverty. But they aren't effective, because free stuff isn't meant to last any longer. Self-reliance is the only solution and the only cure.

When I was a girl, I thought love meant high romance and great drama, but now I understand that love that lasts is a constellation of small kindnesses.

Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

There is a wager that we must all make; for the small stake of some rewarding mental training, we can attain lasting contentment and contribute to a positive outcome for our planet.

Words could hurt worse than any stone, and the bruises lasted longer. Harboring

It hadn't lasted, of course, but that was no small mercy, because who could survive with such intensity of emotion?

We want relationships to last. We want families to stay together. We like it when the good guy wins. Fairy tales. I'm describing fairy tales.

What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable.

a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.

Every body part deserves to be remembered. Every human body deserves to last. It is an outrage that it's so fragile, so delicate. It is an outrage that it's permitted to disintegrate underground, or given the mercy of flames, burned like trash.

There are moments in all our lives when we realize, even as we experience them, that we are living through events we will never forget, even long afterward.

Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.

Social entrepreneurship takes place when a social value proposition (a solution of some kind) provides wide-scale, lasting systems change for the benefit of society.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

I'd like to do something that means more, something that will outlast me the way these buildings have outlasted the men who built them." "I hadn't thought of it that way before," said Willon slowly. "But immortality . . . I think that's a basic instinct rather than the product of pride.

Some sentences remain etched in your mind forever.

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.

Real, sturdy, lasting peace, peace that doesn't rise and fall with circumstances, isn't to be found in picking apart your life until you have understood all of the components. You will never understand it all because God, for your good and his glory, keeps some of it shrouded in mystery.

if threats, manipulation, and guilt could create lasting change in the life of another person, Jesus would not have had to come.

subcultures are liable to influence extensively the everyday lives of participants in practice, and that, more often than not, this concentrated involvement will last years rather than months

Was that it? (for my grave stone)

There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came to you. Sometimes you can know that such an image has been selected to stay with you forever out of the hundreds you every day encounter.