#permanence

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. ↗

— Jean Paul

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

— Lewis Thomas

#human soul #i #indispensable #individual #individual human

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 ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#permanence #rest #unchanging #change

When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#empowerment #impermanence #inspirational #life #motivational

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#circumstance #compromise #goodness #impermanence #inspirational

Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#beauty

Mr. Codro's destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and unchanging, that is to say different from real life which is by nature changing and temporary. It means: not according to natural truth, but according to man's desire and the pretense inspired by his fear of dying and his desire for permanence. ↗

— Alberto Savinio

#death #desire #destiny #fiction #future

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

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All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#impermanence #life-and-death #naruto #orochimaru #death

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. ↗

— Robert Frost

#nature #poem #nature