Lasting Quotes

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Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its… — Eudora Welty
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. — Markus Zusak
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say. Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy… — Suzanne Collins
Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by… — Jodi Picoult
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty… — Alice Hoffman
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen… — Daisaku Ikeda
I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each… — Isabel Allende
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in… — Arthur Golden
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys. — Albert Camus
In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign… — Mikhail Lermontov
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in… — Marisha Pessl
That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our… — Charles Frazier
In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for… — Arthur C. Clarke
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. — William James
I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and… — Charles Dickens
Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy… — Brandon Sanderson
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks. — Philip Yancey
For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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