Lasting Quotes

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Sit here,
so I may write
you into a poem
and make you
eternal.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“I have a thing for things that last.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“My dad once said... "Some friends are like "rubber wrappers"; they bind with you safely but get weaker when you stretch them too much". Treat your friends with care, else the elasticity of their love for you may not go lasting!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.”
― Nina de Gramont

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire, but we don’t often emulate them, because quarrying, cutting, transporting, and fitting stone require a patience we no longer possess.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

“Do not be fooled by what is temporary.”
― Karim Hozayen

“Lust presented as love will not last”
― Ravi Samuel

“Only stories and magic really endure.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?”
― Adam Zagajewski, A Defense of Ardor: Essays

“As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.”
― Richard Peck, Ghosts I Have Been

“Remember to take time for God—it is life’s only lasting investment.”
― Elizabeth George, Small Changes for a Better Life Growth and Study Guide: Daily Steps to Living God's Plan for You

“This Stone

He went looking for a road
that doesn't lead to death.
He went looking for that road
and found it.
It was a stone road.
He walked that road
that doesn't lead to death.
He walked on it awhile
before he stopped,
having turned to stone.
Now he stands there on that road
that doesn't lead to death
not going anywhere.
He can't dance.
from his eyes stones fall.
The rainbow people pass him
crossing that road, long-legged, light-stepping,
going from the Four Houses
to the dancing in the Five Houses.
They pick up his tears.
This stone is a tear
from his eye, this stone
given me on the mountain
by one who died before my birth,
this stone, this stone.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

“The lasting physical and mental health effects of long term very high altitude exposure appear to be remarkably similar to daily heavy smoking.”
― Steven Magee, Health Forensics

“The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.”
― Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“tell me some things last”
― Tom Odell

“My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“A responsible citizen is the one that sees something wrong in the society, something he is not satisfied with or that he cannot agree with and responds not by blaming the government or leaders. But by designing ways and means of bringing a lasting solution to the issues at hand”
― Sunday Adelaja

“René Char, poète français du XXe siècle et membre de la Résistance française, parle de l’Amour en termes de résistance contre l’absence non pas sous sa forme laborieuse, mais sous la forme la plus simple qui soit.

Pour Char, la présence de la personne aimée n'est plus une condition préalable à l'épanouissement de son amour, il ne peut en aucun cas en être une cause.

Le bien-aimé est là, dans l'espace qu'il remplit, dans l'espace qu'il décore; cependant et avec qui il veut. La personne aimée tient le temps aussi aussi fermement que les clés d'absence.

Mais l'amour de Char, la nature la plus vraie de l'amour, "résiste" si facilement.”
― Malak El Halabi

“René Char dans "Eloge d'une soupçonnée" écris le suivant:

"Dans les rues de la ville il y a mon amour. Peu importe où il va dans le temps divisé. Il n'est plus mon amour, chacun peut lui parler. Il ne se souvient plus; qui au juste l'aima?

Il cherche son pareil dans le voeu des regards. L'espace qu'il parcourt est ma fidélité."

René Char, poète français du XXe siècle et membre de la Résistance française, parle de l’Amour en termes de résistance contre l’absence, non pas sous sa forme laborieuse, mais sous la forme la plus simple qu’une résistance aie jamais prise.

Pour Char, la présence du bien-aimé n'est plus une condition préalable à l'épanouissement de l’amour et en aucun cas la cause d’un probable fanement.

Le bien-aimé est là, dans l'espace qu'il remplit, dans l'espace qu'il décore; à sa guise et avec qui il veut. Le bien-aimé tient le temps aussi ainsi que les clés de l’absence.

Mais l'amour de Char, l’amour avec un A majuscule, “résiste" si facilement.”
― Malak El Halabi

“Jesus offers a type of peace that the world cannot offer (John 14:27). The “peace” that the world gives is fleeting and never fully satisfies. The peace that Jesus gives is real and lasting. It’s everything you’ve been looking for. I can promise you that.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Leave not the stars to chase after fireflies.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Create events that will forever subsist in the memory of your clients.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“If you are going to make any mark, strive to make a deep impression, because that is how to live forever.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“We are not here as settlers, but rather as observers and sojourners. In our eyes, everything looks permanent, as though they would last forever, but they will last as long as we are still around, until we are not.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“The earth outlives the great, but not the greatness of the great.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Even in its ragged state, the garden is astonishingly beautiful. The untended, untouched look of it--- and the ivy-covered walls that protect it on three sides--- only add to the air pf enchantment, of mystery, that rises from it like a shimmer of heat. It looks like something from a fairy tale, like it could have been torn from one of the picture books my mother read to me when I was a child.
Here and there wishing the tangle of green, I spot flashes of purple. Is this the lavender that I caught a hint of earlier when I stepped out of my truck? I breathe in. Yes. The scent is as gentle, as soothing, as a warm bath. There are other scents, too... alluring notes that drift toward me in soft waves. Viburnum. Honeysuckle. Sage. Phlox. Roses, so many roses...”
― Meg Donohue, The Memory Gardener