Quotes about Permanence

Truth is immortal error is mortal.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Fix not thy heart on that which is transitory; for the Dijlah, or Tigris, will continue to flow through Bagdad after the race of caliphs is extinct: if thy hand has plenty, be liberal as the date tree; but if it affords nothing to give away, be an azad, or free man, like the cypress.

What is once well done is done forever.

The words of men pass away when they have been conceived and uttered, but the Word of God is eternally uttered and can never cease from utterance.

The very permanence of marriage is destructive of those fleeting infatuations, which are born with the moment and die with it; it destroys selfishness, furthermore, because the mutual love of husband and wife takes them out of themselves into the incarnation of their mutual love, their other selves, their children; and finally it narrows selfishness because the rearing of children demands sacrifice, without which, like unwatered flowers, they wilt and die.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. 43.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth, not from thing to thing: books could be burnt, paper crumbles away, computers could be destroyed. Only the spirit lives forever, and the Spirit isn't a thing.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds.