Fleeting Quotes
347 Fleeting quotes by 294 unique authors
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Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates…
— Oliver Burkeman
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Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which…
— Dalai Lama
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If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will…
— Sarah Strohmeyer
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Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that…
— François Lelord
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What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or new rules or…
— Sam Storms
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We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm…
— Alex Gaskarth
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Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment…
— Neil Pasricha
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The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat,…
— Chris Hedges
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Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.
— Danielle LaPorte
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We are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth or status or power or fame, but…
— Barack Obama
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We've all had at least a fleeting experience of a deep connection with the Divine in a meditation, in a moment of realization, or at…
— Debbie Ford
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What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to…
— Jim Goad
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Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it…
— Jim Elliot
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across…
— Ann Brashares
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Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of…
— Ann Brashares
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Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find…
— Bill Watterson
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With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
— Geddy Lee
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They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of…
— Miki Dora
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Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest…
— Marcus Aurelius
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He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It…
— Winston Churchill
Who Wrote These Fleeting Quotes
294 authors contributed a total of 347 Fleeting Quotes, led by these top contributors: