Ephemerality Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ephemerality Eternity Mankind Worries
“Few of us ever touch eternity, and if we do, it is not in the ways we expect.” — Jordan MacLean Copy Share Image
“We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little… — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
“We do whatever we enjoy doing. Whether is happens to be judged good or evil is a matter for others to decide.” — Ian Brady Copy Share Image
“Our works are made worthy of eternity by virtue of the mercy in him, rather than on the basis of the merit in them.” — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.” — Timothy S. Lane Copy Share Image
“God is the infinite and eternal judge What others say or think about you is trivial pursuit” — Simone Da Costa Copy Share Image
“If we wish to truly experience a life that makes an eternal difference, the power within us is not enough. It is the power… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
“And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty, and humanity will… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a brief and… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them.… — Pamela Todd Copy Share Image
“We continue to eat, the conversation easy and flowing. I listen to everything everyone says, an urgency to pay attention, to not miss these… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
“Etchings endure, But not in Sand Meanings Collide To Unresolved Fragments Codes fizzle to Static They are not lost But Unheard Never lost Fading… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
