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A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging everlasting quotes, everlasting sayings, and everlasting proverbs.
Famous Everlasting Quotes
- “The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.” ~ John Milton
- “Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, – Necessity and Free Will.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.” ~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” ~ Natalie Babbitt
- “Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.” ~ Abdu’l-Bahá
- “In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he’s given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.” ~ Duane Chapman
- “If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.” ~ Charles Stanley
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“I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.” ~ Dave Eggers
- “Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.” My friend, that is worth more than all the feeling you can have in a life-time.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our insignificant life, which yet is the work of the Creator’s hands, and the purchase of the Redeemer’s blood, before the Eternal and All-Merciful, that we may learn the manners of a higher sphere, and fit ourselves for companionship with saints and angels, and for the everlasting sight of the face of God.” ~ Henry Parry Liddon
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“The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.” ~ Ray Comfort
- “Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole’s everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.” ~ Paul Cezanne
- “No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.” ~ William Mountford
- “Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.” ~ Franz Werfel
- “Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.” ~ Emma Goldman
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“Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.” ~ Lord Kelvin
- “It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it’s getting to the point now where it’s like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I’m done.” ~ Picabo Street
- “This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.” ~ William James
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“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.” ~ Marianne Moore
- “People got to do something useful if they’re going to take up space in the world.” ~ Natalie Babbitt
- “To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.” ~ Charles Taze Russell
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“The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.” ~ Groucho Marx
- “It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” ~ Sarah Vowell
- “It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” ~ Benjamin Britten
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“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle…” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.” ~ Thomas Traherne
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“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You’ve got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.” ~ Michael Novak
- “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.” ~ Natalie Babbitt
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“Life’s got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.” ~ Natalie Babbitt
- “All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.” ~ John Donne
- “Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!” ~ Thomas de Quincey
- “I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “Still there’s no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don’t bring changes.” ~ Natalie Babbitt
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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.” ~ Benjamin Britten
- “Truth is everlasting.” ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
- “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” ~ Herbert Spencer
- “Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning – never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they’ve never done before. On this summersday, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.” ~ Natalie Babbitt
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“But dying’s part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can’t pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that’s the blessing.” ~ Natalie Babbitt
- “Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.” ~ Julia Ward Howe
- “It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.” ~ Charles Williams
- “That’s what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it’s eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.” ~ Alyson Noel
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“We called the album ‘Amarantine’ to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.” ~ Enya
- “Guidance, like all God’s acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God’s promise; this is how good he is.” ~ J. I. Packer
- “May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
- “If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?” ~ Penn Jillette
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“To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.” ~ Rumi
- “You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.” ~ Lucretius
- “England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.” ~ George Orwell
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“Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.” ~ Muhammad Iqbal
- “The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.” ~ Homer
- “I’m different than most people…when I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as If my Journey is everlasting and there is no finish line” ~ David Goggins
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“A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.” ~ Epicurus
- “The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation – the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.” ~ David Lloyd George
- “Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that there should be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.” ~ Blaise Pascal
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“And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “For Hell and the foul fiend that rules
God’s everlasting fiery jails
(Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools),
With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door,
Are senseless stories, idle tales,
Dreams, whimseys, and no more.” ~ John Wilmot - “Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He may bring his nature to a condition of ONE, he may nourish his strength; he may harmonise his virtue, and so put himself into partnership with God.” ~ Zhuangzi
- “Even in tragedy, God through His Word offers hope for those who seek and believe. It starts with the promise of a better tomorrow, of life everlasting, of eternal peace. It’s called faith, and it offers hope where none existed.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.” ~ Suzanne Collins
