Life Continuity Quotes

#1. It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.

William Kittredge

#2. People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.

Nathaniel Fick

#3. People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

David Levithan

#4. Daniel's desk by the window is piled high with his drawings. The artwork is everything. He thinks of himself as the act of drawing. His body of work is his life, it is his continuity. The drawings show outwardly that inner place where he is still alive, a thread to connect him with the world.

J.J. Brown

#5. We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

Stephen Jay Gould

#6. Gaming was "one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing." But even more than that, "It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need.

Alexandra Robbins

#7. If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Eric Hoffer

#8. My Lord, I am but few moments of the continuity of universal life, and I understand I am nothing other than that - a part of cosmic sacrifice!

Preeth Nambiar

#9. Your background should not dictate the rest of your life ; there is success in continuity.

Osunsakin Adewale

#10. Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

Mary Hunter Austin

#11. Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

Ross David Burke

#12. Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.

Mark Van Doren

#13. I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

Martha Graham

#14. Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.

Sherry Turkle

#15. It feels like I've been waiting a century to do that. It's like time has lost all continuity. Every second with you outweighs days of life before I met you.

Stephanie Meyer

#16. I have always clung, or maybe I wanted to cling, to bits and pieces of existence here and there, with no coherence, no center, no continuity in my life. There is a shorter way of saying this: I am a mess.

Elif Shafak

#17. We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

Teju Cole

#18. If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Tom Stoppard

#19. In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

Salman Rushdie

#20. The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

Walter Lippmann

#21. We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

Adrienne Rich

#22. Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

Frederick Lenz

#23. You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

Rudy Giuliani

#24. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

Italo Calvino

#25. Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

John Dewey

#26. in Sante Fe time is not that shallow. There one can go deep into a continuity as the pueblos and the culture they represent take one back at least eight hundred years through a single Indian dance. For a European that continuity is life-giving.

May Sarton

#27. Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always broken. Rock is very strong and meditation is very delicate, but this is the mystery of life - the continuity of the delicate can break the strongest and the hardest.

Rajneesh

#28. By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

John Cassavetes

#29. When fear dissolves, you no longer separate yourself from this single flow of immense force. Love is continuity with infinite life force, a Oneness of being with no separation. Love is the key to opening to this flow of life force.

David Deida

#30. The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

David O. Selznick

#31. It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

Neil Gaiman

#32. For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.

Eudora Welty

#33. Only by intertwining these two perspectives, the biological and the phenomenological, can we gain a fuller understanding of the immanent purposiveness of the organism and the deep continuity of life and mind.

Evan Thompson

#34. There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions - seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life.

Susan Hill

#35. Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Werner Von Braun

#36. Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

Julio Cortazar

#37. When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

Anne Waldman

#38. A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life ... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.

Ralph Davis

#39. There is a continuity in our lives - a strain of music that flows through it all, unaltered by death or pain. It is true that in the face of pain and death, we are very small. But in the face of life and memory and love, even death is very small.

Yael Shahar

#40. In every life, there was death and rebirth and continuity.

Mary Alice Monroe

#41. Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.

Ken Burns

#42. We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

Oliver Sacks

#43. Music creates order out of chaos.

Yehudi Menuhin

#44. Keep the bicycle moving, because if you stop pedalling, you will fall off.

Paulo Coelho

#45. Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.

Rajneesh

#46. When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

Sandra Bernhard

#47. The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

Adrienne Rich

#48. My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.

Francesca Annis

#49. In real life, when emotions and sentiments are involved and the very continuity of life is at stake, there are no quantitative theories, linear programming, and applied mechanics available to solve those problems.

Girdhar Joshi

#50. The immediate source of a mind ... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.

Dalai Lama

#51. Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

Alysia Reiner

#52. Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

Georgia Harkness

#53. I guess she was a life line
Sewing our family fabric together
From me to dad to her
Gave me a sense of continuity
Especially when my daughter was born
As she was slipping away

Richard L. Ratliff

#54. The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

Robert A. Caro

#55. I get furious at stairways, furious at doors, at
walls, furious at everyday life which interferes with the continuity of
ecstasy.

Anais Nin

#56. Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

Morris West

#57. The combination of a healthy body and a stable relationship with a self-reliant woman who takes zero shit from me or anyone else has made the continuity of my working life possible.

Stephen King

#58. In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe.

Yamada Koun

#59. A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).

Nancy Lancaster

#60. There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Lyonel Feininger

#61. The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.

Alanis Morissette

#62. There are only hallucinations, or perceptions, and that there are neither nights nor days ... and that life is continuous; yet that one would never be aware of its continuity, nor even that life exists without these pendulum movements; and life is primarily verified by the beating of the heart

Alfred Jarry

#63. For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

Marcel Proust

#64. A worshiping community should be the fountain from which life flows and the ocean into which your efforts are merged. That is where identity is defined, refined, and consolidated and where continuity remains.

Ravi Zacharias