Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely… — Mary Deasy Copy Share Image
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away. — Ian K. Smith Copy Share Image
The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But… — Isaac Ambrose Copy Share Image
“In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient. — Plato Copy Share Image
I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
