Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"What we do in life ripples in eternity."
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Eternity
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Mother Angelica
Nun, Television Personality
"Everything starts with one person... I don't care if you're 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novelist
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
Derek Prince
Minister
"God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too."
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"He who lives in the present lives in eternity."
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"We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second."
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"A human life is a schooling for eternity."
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"The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent."
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"I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity."
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"Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity."
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"Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity."
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"Our death is our wedding with eternity."
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"Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity"
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"Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity."
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
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"He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time."
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"Eternity forbids thee to forget."
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"Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke"
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"Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity."
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"The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time."
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"When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)"
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"In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity."
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"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."
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"This life is only a prelude to eternity."
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