Quotes about Continuity

But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave.

The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.

Il passato non è morto e sepolto. In realtà non è neppure passato

The past is never dead. It's not even past; it's always part of the present.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

The truth is, when we burn the paper, it will change into something else and will continue on in other forms—as ash, smoke, and heat, in our body and the universe. The heat is one of the next lives of the paper, as is the smoke rising to the sky. The ash will return to the earth and become part of the soil. So the sheet of paper, in its next life, might be a cloud and a rose at the same time.

We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Whether one says: the body of humiliation is transformed into a body of glory, or says, the corruptible puts on incorruption, the mortal immortality, makes no difference whatever as to the principle of continuity.