There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
Joel: This is working like gangbusters.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.
Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Perhaps, he thought, his Master would only amuse himself with the little pain slut for a little while and then give her back to his faithful servant as an eternal plaything. The ghost chuckled at the thought of what he would do to that little slut if...
.....listening means learning to hear someone's inner world and deepest feelings with far greater attention in order that we don't let our own assumptions get in the way. The dying may speak in images far more akin to dreamland than the world of ever...
Jesus didn't speak of hell so that we could study, debate and write books about it. He gave us these passages so that we would live holy lives. Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail t...
Anyway, these ideas or feelings or ramblings had their satisfactions. They turned the pain of others into memories of one’s own. They turned pain, which is natural, enduring, and eternally triumphant, into personal memory, which is human, brief, an...
Well," he said slowly, "sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or death. And because it ends in its beauty, it's what the harpers sing of and the poets make stories of: the love that escapes the years.... "All or nothing...
The famed philosopher Diogenes was looking intently at a large collection of human bones piled one upon another. Alexander the Great stood nearby and became curious about what Diogenes was doing. When he asked the old man what he was doing, the rely ...
Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
