Eternal Pursuit Quotes

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

Enough is ever-receding.

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and neglecting that which could give spiritual and intellectual unity to his whole life.

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.

Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself.

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend

I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.