You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to… — Alvaro Siza Vieira Copy Share Image
If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes… — Mary Livermore Copy Share Image
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal,… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory — the… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
“We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way; this is something… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
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