Unchanging Essence Quotes

When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

What you were is forever who you are.

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

And yes, I know it's you; and that is what we will come to, sooner or later, when it's even darker than it is now, when the snow is colder, when it's darkest and coldest and candles are no longer any use to us and the visibility is zero: yes. It's still you. It's still you.

When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.

We are always the same age inside.

The soul is the birthless, deathless, changeless part of us - the part of us that looks out from behind our eyes and has no form.

You can't help but change a little bit, but on the inside I'm still completely the same person.

From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed; not in the way my friends mean who want to compliment me, no matter what, on my good health, but because all this time I have looked for the same things, which I have perhaps realized by different means.

Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.

Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.

I never leave anything behind. It's like a history, a chain, a line of life, you just have to move and make new steps, and keep it evolving - but my soul is my soul.

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.