Permanence Quotes

Permanence Quote of the day

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.

Women can do nothing that has permanence.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

I give the moment permanence.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.

It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.

Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

I'm very, very curious about how people live under the volcano, how they handle the permanence of danger.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.