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#permanence

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Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.


David Vitter


#history #institution #marriage #our #permanence

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.


Zhuangzi


#away #cling #depended #everything #gradually

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.


Alain de Botton


#anachronisms #death #permanence #revolution #sociology

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.


Richard Paul Evans


#impermanence #sunsets #beauty

La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n’est que le prestige d’un moment; l’œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme." ("The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes," she continued, "is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.") [Le beau Laurence]


George Sand


#eyes #perception #permanence #soul #transience

that was bad; i shouldn't have done that to prevent you from entering a catatonic state i am going to maintain a calm facial expression with crinkly eyes and an overall friendly demeanor i believe in a human being that is not upset i believe if you are working i should not be insane or upset--why am i ever insane or upset and not working? i vacuumed the entire house this morning i cleaned the kitchen and the computer room and i made you a meat helmet with computer paper the opportunity for change exists in each moment, all moments are alone and separate from other moments, and there are a limited number of moments and the idea of change is a delusion of positive or negative thinking your hands are covering your face and your body moves like a statue when i try to manipulate an appendage if i could just get you to cry tears of joy one more time


Tao Lin


#impermanence #indifferent-universe #meat-helmet #productivity #sadness

From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of the inexistance to the existentialist, formless to the form, Creator to the Creature, one to the every being, absolute to the inabsolute and vis-á-vis, soforth every single thing is temporary, non-existed, so do I, the dream that I dreamed off is simply a 'lie and impermanent too' same as in the mortal world whatever I do experience.


Upanishad


#god #impermanence #lie #self #spiritual

I have no news of my coming or passing away-- the whole thing happened quicker than a breath; ask no questions of the moth.


فرید الدین عطار


#mayfly-and-pilgrim #zen #zen

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.


Thomas Carlyle


#discouragement #distinguishes #impossibilities #obstacle #permanence

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.


Joe Henderson


#found #gives #illusion #important #mile






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