Permanent Quotes

“Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment”

“The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.”

“Nothing was permanent. . . Nothing will be permanent. . . Nothing is permanent. . .~Ramy(n)”

“There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.”

“Employment should not be your permanent assignment”

“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.”

“I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of permanent value.”

“After having lived life for so many years, you would have learnt that nothing external can give you permanent joy, because it’s all fleeting and temporary. Permanent joy is right here and now, in your being – it’s not out-there in some relationship or material possession. You can have everything you desire, but first you must know that none of it is going to bring you permanent joy. Permanent peace/joy is already present in your being right now, below the surface level thoughts and feelings, recognize that and rest in this place – when you do so, you will be in a place of zero resistance and thus allow swift manifestation of your desires.”

“Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.”