The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.
These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.
Daisies are perennials; they always grow back.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial.
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.
Then there are these heavy perennial moments that suddenly unearth me, when the world takes on this ravaging clarity and you feel marooned, cut off from normality.
I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
