"Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity."
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"Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our life truly fruitful if we are not cut off from our Source, which is the peace of Eternity."
"There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate."
"Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity."
"It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical."
"With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian."
"Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened."
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"All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle."
"For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error."
"Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven."
"“You may have eternity. I have only now.” “But this is eternity.”"
"To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions."
"The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity."
"Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be."
"Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops."
"Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve."
"Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity."
"Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die."
"Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity."