The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory. — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory. — Jennifer Beals 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
As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image. — Craig Owens 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
“When you perform too well, you get punished by winning. This feeling is transitory, and after the celebration is over, all you… — Jarod Kintz 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
A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It… — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is… — Cass McCombs 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
I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence.… — Jacques Ellul 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
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
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate… — George Nakashima 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
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds… — Stephen De Staebler 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
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
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
Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's… — Joseph Hertz 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
It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image