Permanent Quotes

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

Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul!

A permanent pathThat, once illuminated,Goes ever onward – a way home…

A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.

The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.

When we fail to reflect on the undercurrents of the circumstances of our life, we may have permanent misgivings about the quality of our interpretations. A lucid reading of our acts and our desires helps us to avoid tumbling into a frustrating gap between what we expect and what others expect. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)

NASA astronauts have only managed to live continuously on the International Space Station (ISS) for a year and Biosphere 2 on Earth failed at two years of uninterrupted human habitation. Both cases required extracting the sickened people from the toxic environments. At this point it is ludicrous to talk about a permanent manned base on Mars.

By being rigid, you become temporary; by being flexible, you become permanent!