Eternal Quotes - Page 16

• What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul - joyous, eternal.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Thinking, Soul

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• Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.

  Herman Melville

  War, Sharks, Sea

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.438, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story.  We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death.  We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.

  Joseph Campbell

  Age, Needs, Stories

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.4, Anchor

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• Let me say that for comfort, there is no thought more full of sweetness than that of an eternal God engaged in Christ Jesus to His people; to love, and bless, and save them all. One Who has made them the distinguished objects of His discriminating regard from all eternity, it is the eternal God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, People, Comfort

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• The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.

  Leonardo Boff

  Destiny, Naked, Littles

  Leonardo Boff (1980). “The Way of the Cross: Way of Justice”

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• The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cost, Vigilance, Eternal Vigilance

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• If the eternal King started in Bethlehem, so will anyone who follows Him.

  Mike Bickle

  Kings, Bethlehem, Ifs

  Mike Bickle (2013). “After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You”, p.166, Charisma Media

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• Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Broken, Water

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• To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Destiny, Desire, Quality

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• But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Vitality, Doe

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• Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Dream, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use, Nouns, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.75, North Atlantic Books

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• He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Curiosity, Fit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics

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• Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Space, Transcendentalism

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.307, Courier Corporation

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• What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Law, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.360, Penguin

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• Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eggs, Clouds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.106, Penguin

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• Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Looks, Fleeting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.396

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• Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Inner Peace

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• If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

  Augusta Jane Evans

  Men, Self, Stronger

  Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272

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• By unswerving devotion to Me, a man crosses over three Gunas - I am the Abode of Brahman, Eternal and Immutable, of everlasting Dharma and Absolute Bliss.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Men, Three, Bliss

  "Tarangini, vol. X". Book by Swami Chinmayananda, p. 40,

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• The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.

  H. L. Mencken

  Science, Essence, Ideas

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.249, Knopf

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• The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

  Henry Adams

  Women, Science, Isis

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

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• I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Artist, Soul, Apollo

  Friedrich Schiller (1902). “Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller: In Eight Vol”

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• It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  God, Law, Impossible

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• I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.

  William Hurlbut

  Life, Jealous, Power

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