Lasting Quotes - Page 25

• It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

  David Maraniss

  Detroit, Vulnerable, Possibility

  David Maraniss (2016). “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You're going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.

  Robert Thurman

  Struggle, World, Problem

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say. Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.

  Suzanne Collins

  Joy, Gold, Would Be

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• Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Giving, Wish

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

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• A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

  Markus Zusak

  Friendship, Inspiring, Snow

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.55, RH Childrens Books

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• Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Heart, Blessing

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.61, Modern Library

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• Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Wisdom, Love You

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• Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

  Walt Whitman

  Shade, My Thoughts, Strongest

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.407, NYU Press

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• Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen our prayers, become stronger people, live more profound lives and secure deeper, more lasting good fortune. If our slightest prayer was answered immediately, we would become lazy and degenerate. And we could not hope to build a life of great dignity and substance.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Prayer, People, Profound

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• I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, Ideas, Blood

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• If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Real, Lying, Eye

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• We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

  Winston Churchill

  Enemy, Interest

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• The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, Thinking, Media

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• Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.

  Henry Rollins

  Hard Work, Writing, Complaining

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• A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fire, Numbers, Envy

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• He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Father, Men

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• I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

  Horace

  Brass, Monument

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.149, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Real, Opportunity, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 20, 2013

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• The most important thing in life is human affection.
  Without it one cannot achieve genuine happiness.
  And if we want a happier life, a happier family, happier neighbours
  or a happier nation, the key is inner quality.
  Even if the five billion human beings that inhabit the earth become
  millionaires, without inner development there cannot be peace
  or any lasting happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Things In Life, Lasting Happiness, Keys

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• Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, People, Giving

  "Stillness Speaks". Book by Eckhart Tolle, August 26, 2003.

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• The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Heart, Fire

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• In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Loving Life, Two, Achievement

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.345, RosettaBooks

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• I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Joy, Stranger

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

  Arthur Golden

  Believe, People, Forever

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• Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Destiny, Thinking, People

  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance pt. 3, ch. 25 (1974)

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