“If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be… — Ferdinand von Mueller Copy Share Image
Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium.… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden… — Keegan Allen Copy Share Image
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Difficulties with material things often come to remind us that our concentration should be on spiritual things instead of material things. Sometimes… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“transient, adj. In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image