Permanent Quotes

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

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

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.

That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

There is nothing permanent in the world except change.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.

Relationships are forever. They are eternal. Not just permanent in this lifetime. Once you establish a relationship, it is an eternal relationship.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.

If we look at the world with a deluded body and mind, we will think that our self is permanent. But if we practice correctly and return to our true self, we will realize that nothing is permanent

We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.