Eternal Quotes - Page 27

• The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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• Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Men, Answers

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• The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Desire, Usual

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• Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Law, Doe, Youth

  Guy de Maupassant (1989). “The dark side of Guy de Maupassant”

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• Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Rights, Race

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3053, Library of Alexandria

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• Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

  Dante Alighieri

  Air, Singing, Larks

  Dante Alighieri (1961). “The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso”, p.291, Oxford University Press

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• We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all, we have a knowledge that God lives and is in His Heavens and that His Son Jesus Christ has laid out a plan for us which will bring us and our loved ones eternal life if we are faithful. That life will be a busy, purposeful life with accomplishments and joys and development.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jesus, Commitment, Son

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• Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Sky

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Poems by Walt Whitman”, p.116, Read Books Ltd

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• When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

  Stephen Baxter

  Giving, Laughing, Anxiety

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• Intuition is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine, eternal selves. When we realize that our spiritual knowledge is in us right now, and always has been, we become filled with light, light-hearted, and enlightened.

  Penney Peirce

  Spiritual, Powerful, Light

  Penney Peirce (2009). “The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• God grant that each of us here today may so live that all among us, and with us, may see, not us, but that which is divine and comes from God. With that vision of what those who have lost their way may become, my prayer is that they may receive strength and resolution to climb higher and higher and upward and onward to that great goal of eternal life and also that I may do my part in seeking to show by example, as well as by precept, that which will be the best of which I am capable of doing.

  Harold B. Lee

  Prayer, Goal, Vision

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• We are neither this way nor that; we are a body which is in the midst of change and evaporating.  We are timeless, thousands of years old, and involved with processes which go beyond our present identity.  This gives us an eternal feeling, but one which is realizable right here in the moment.

  Arnold Mindell

  Years, Giving, Feelings

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• You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor.  Why should it?  The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government.  The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.  Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, War, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Soul, Black

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities

  Laozi

  Void, Infinite, Possibility

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• I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and woman are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.

  John Wanamaker

  Men, Important, Principles

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• When Eternity is considered to be the Beginning, then our speaking of the Beginning of the Begun is nothing but our speaking of the Eternity of the Eternal or our speaking of the Eternity of the Begun.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Eternity

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• Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Bears, Eternity, Resemblance

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• Therefore, in the Beginning, which is Truth, all things are Eternal Truth itself

  Nicholas of Cusa

  All Things

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• Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace, and that the goodness of the Almighty God is so great that He hears those who invoke His name, and they gain salvation, became humble, acknowledging that they are ignorant, and directed their life as the life of one desiring eternal wisdom. And that is the life of the virtuous, who proceed in the desire for the other life, which is commended by the saints.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Humble, Names, Grace

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• For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the earth than that it glow and grow into a flame. When it is excited by admiration, then it grows, just as if the wind entering into a fire excited its potential to actuality. If we apprehend the works of God, we marvel at eternal wisdom.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Fire, Flames, Wind

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• Thus the sum
  Forever is replenished, and we live
  As mortals by eternal give and take.
  The nations wax, the nations wane away;
  In a brief space the generations pass,
  And like to runners hand the lamp of life
  One unto other.

  Lucretius

  Hands, Space, Giving

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.214, Delphi Classics

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• My ex-girlfriend was very sexy. She reminded me of the Sphinx because she was very mysterious and eternal and solid...and her nose was shot off by French soldiers.

  Emo Philips

  Sexy, Girlfriend, Soldier

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• Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.

  Umberto Eco

  Grief, Joy, Feelings

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.458, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Powerful, House, Needs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “The Last American Man”, p.13, A&C Black

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