For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage.
Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.
History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.
Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
From religion. . . they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.
Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.
True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.
The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.
Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is. . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. . . the food we eat, the cramped apartments. . . the crowded subways. . . . American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault of the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.