Welcome to Eternal Quotes, where timeless wisdom meets inspirational words that resonate across generations. In the vast tapestry of human existence, certain phrases encapsulate profound truths, stirring emotions, and sparking reflection. Whether drawn from ancient scriptures, revered literature, or the musings of contemporary thinkers, these quotes transcend time, offering insights that remain relevant and poignant.
Within these pages, you’ll encounter a treasure trove of quotes that delve into the depths of the human experience, touching upon themes of love, resilience, purpose, and beyond. From the eloquent prose of poets to the succinct aphorisms of philosophers, each quote carries the weight of collective wisdom, inviting you to contemplate life’s mysteries and discover new perspectives. As you immerse yourself in the richness of these timeless expressions, may you find solace, inspiration, and guidance in your own journey through the passage of time. Explore the beauty of language and the power of thought as you peruse the collection below.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life. Jordan Peterson
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. Saint Ignatius
Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith. Emily Greene Balch
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom. Maria Weston Chapman
Hope springs eternal, even for hopeless crusades. Kayleigh McEnany
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it. Laura Ingalls Wilder
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It’s like asking somebody to swallow the sun. Elizabeth Gilbert
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Alfred Einstein
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. Egon Schiele
This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, – to give life’s best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal. Joshua Chamberlain
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Langston Hughes
Mount Rushmore is eternal. It will stand until the end of time. Gutzon Borglum
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life! Russell M. Nelson
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are. David Icke
The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton. Cecil Rhodes
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. Oscar Wilde
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end. Ezra Taft Benson
I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth. Doug Hutchison
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold – brothers who know now they are truly brothers. Archibald MacLeish
People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It’s a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you’ll just become enslaved by someone else. Norman Finkelstein
Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal. Martti Ahtisaari
There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? Lord Byron
I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It’s called Silver Needle. It’s unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web. Antonio Banderas
My favourite movie of all-time is ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.’ I love Kate Winslet. Alia Bhatt
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. Friedrich Nietzsche
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. Swami Sivananda
Art is eternal, but life is short. Evelyn de Morgan
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. Jean Paul
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. Josephine Hart
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. Meister Eckhart
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. George Eliot
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. Alexander Pope
The Gospel offends the sinner and seeks to break the sinner’s comfort and contentment by bringing him into stark realization of the eternal judgement of God. John MacArthur
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. Martin Luther
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos. Nita Ambani
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan
Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation’ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together. Marianne Williamson
Elegance is eternal and I add my pinch of that ingredient to what I wear. Sonu Kakkar
If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe. Guru Nanak
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God’s eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. Robert Schumann
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Jean-Paul Sartre
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. William Law
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. Norman Cousins
I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble rank – I blush not to state it, nor am I sorry – for the profit of others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Saint Patrick
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists. Ramana Maharshi
Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life. Claude Vorilhon
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. Petrarch
Fashions fade, style is eternal. Yves Saint Laurent
Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded. Chrysippus
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. Heraclitus
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Desmond Tutu
Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God. Armstrong Williams
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Hermann Hesse
The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally. Billy Graham
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong. Charles Bukowski
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. Albert Einstein
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’ Christopher Hitchens
Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. C. S. Lewis
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. H. L. Mencken
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. Buddha
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. Swami Sivananda
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. Lyman Abbott
Genius is eternal patience. Michelangelo
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. Edmund Burke
The moment eternal – just that and no more – When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! Robert Browning
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. Maurice Chevalier
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honore de Balzac
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. George Orwell
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. Simone Weil
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension… Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Khalil Gibran
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. John Calvin
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. Abraham Lincoln
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. Hu Shih
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. John Lennon
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. Dante Alighieri
The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy. Ingmar Bergman
God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple – one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel. Charles Stanley
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors. Herbert Kaufman
I don’t think that what we need is an eternal leader. Paul Kagame
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we’re all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we’ve done all our lives pointless. Neale Donald Walsch
My favorite movies are ‘The Notebook,’ ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,’ and ‘Wolf Children.’ Nayeon
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It’s such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. David Lynch
My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity. Wayne Dyer
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. Anatole France
I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back. Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development. Gordon B. Hinckley
The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn’t end with death but with eternal life. Angelo Scola
No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now. Henry B. Eyring
I’m sure that love exists, even infinite, eternal love. Kylie Minogue
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. David Friedrich Strauss