The Eternal Quotes
To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.
I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.
I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it shall receive eternal rest in heaven.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.
Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.
Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.
The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.
There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."
Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.
We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more.
Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.
See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.
Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.
The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.
Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago
What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.