Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire

Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.

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.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

Not every book has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth reading.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

I lost somebody who I thought was my eternal love … When he died I felt we’d had a marriage

Do not get too attached to life] for it is like a sailor’s leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.

Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters

In God’s faithfulness lies eternal security.

Thoughts of bondage and of freedom last only as long as one feels, ‘I am bound’. When one enquires of oneself, ‘Who am I, the bound one?’ the Self, Eternal, ever free, remains. The thought of bondage goes; and with it goes the thought of freedom too.

The body which is matter says not ‘I’. Eternal Awareness rises not nor sets. Betwixt the two, bound by the body, rises the thought of ‘I’. This is the knot of matter and Awareness. This is bondage, jiva, subtle body, ego. This is samsara, this is the mind.

Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

It gives me a deep, comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.

Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Eternal love made me.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life

Genius is eternal patience.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal

This is life eternal: Be happy for this moment; this moment is your life.

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

God and all attributes of God are eternal.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Nothing that we do together has a finish line. You & I, Little Monsters, we are eternal.