Quotes About Permanence

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

That which is true must be infinite and eternal. That is the one test of truth. It never decays, it is always the same.

Matter is the permanent possibility of sensations," said John Stuart Mill. It is only the suggestion that is outside.

How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?

But there's no pause in real life. There's also no rewind. And there's definitely no delete. There's just now running on and on, and you can't ever stop it, no matter what you do.

Time the destroyer is time the preserver.

Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

Z?o jak ciemno??. Trwa wiecznie. A dobro to rozb?ysk, to nietrwa?e zwyci?stwo nad ciemno?ci?. Dobro jest ?miertelne.

Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.

They are forever, a brief and mortal forever, a forever that will grow into their bones and be held inside them after it ends, intact, indestructible.

two of the human race's greatest myths: the possibility of permanence, and the simplicity of human nature.

And even if I somehow didn't: I had killed someone, and I always would have. It was always going to be like this. There was no undoing this, no talking my way out, no fixing it or apologizing it away, no smoothing off the sharp edges or planing it down so it could be tucked away into some smaller, manageable box. Instead it would grind me away till I fit around its own immutable shape.

Love things that last

We see things as existing permanently and cling to anything that reinforces our concept of permanence, pushing away anything that threatens it. Attachment and aversion are the roots of all other problems, and they themselves are caused by ignorance. Thus ignorance, attachment, and aversion—what Buddhism calls the three poisons—are the origin (the second noble truth) of suffering (the first noble truth).

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.

Er was niets veranderd in de straat, zag ze. Het was nog steeds dezelfde rustige straat die ze altijd had gekend. Hoe was het mogelijk dat levens totaal konden veranderen, konden worden vernietigd, terwijl straten en gebouwen hetzelfde bleven, vroeg ze zich af.

My missing tooth was part of my body that should have been with me forever. Teeth are bones at the end of the day. And everyone has a right to their own bones.

Non omnis moriar [No moriré del todo]».

Verba volant, scripta manent. In Tiv you would say, 'Spoken words fly away, written words remain.

Temporary becomes indefinite becomes permanent.