Lasting Things Quotes

Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.

If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.

I've always liked the idea of making things that last forever, not necessarily in the sense of being unbreakable, but more psychologically permanent. Most people throw stuff away not because it's broken but because their relationship with that object is broken.

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

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.