Henry David Thoreau Quotes

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.

No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Nothing endures except truth.

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.

I want to stay rooted forever.

Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do.

You can endure change by pondering His permanence.

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

Human-nature will not change.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.