“Nothing is eternal, but everything you take care of lasts longer.”

Original: Nulla è eterno, ma tutto ciò di cui ci si prende cura dura più a lungo.
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Italian DJ and producer 1983

Sam Savage book Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

Source: Firmin

“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.”

Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer

Book I, lines 361-362
See also "One of our poets (which is it?) speaks of an everlasting now", Robert Southey, The Doctor, chap. xxv. p. 1
Davideis (1656)

“Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.”

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher

Source: The Eternal Now

“Everything comes to an end, reader. It is an old truism to which may be added that not everything that lasts, lasts for long. This latter part is not readily admitted; on the contrary the idea that an air castle lasts longer than the very air of which it is made is hard to get out of a person's head, and this is fortunate, otherwise the custom of making those almost eternal constructions might be lost.”

Machado de Assis book Dom Casmurro

Tudo acaba, leitor; é um velho truísmo, a que se pode acrescentar que nem tudo o que dura dura muito tempo. Esta segunda parte não acha crentes fáceis; ao contrário, a idéia de que um castelo de vento dura mais que o mesmo vento de que é feito, dificilmente se despegará da cabeça, e é bom que seja assim, para que se não perca o costume daquelas construções quase eternas.
Source: Dom Casmurro (1899), Ch. 118, p. 235