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In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences.… — Unknown Author
The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty.… — Teri Hatcher
Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a… — Barbara Fredrickson
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the… — Thomas Gray
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems… — Mark Helprin
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — Evelyn Waugh
All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. — Kingsley Amis
Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift,… — Robert Thurman
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with… — Leo Lionni
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may have momentary payoffs… — Laura Schlessinger
Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and making us always… — Pope Francis
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on,… — Alberto Giacometti
Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person. — Unknown Author
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing… — Gerhard Richter
... a blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play… — Billy Gibbons
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary." — Ken Kesey
Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone,… — Norbert Wiener
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also… — Richard Sennett
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is… — Dogen
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder… — Glenn Gould
Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing — Ravi Zacharias
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does. — Jonathan Carroll
Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I… — Joel Meyerowitz
Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts… — Patrick MacGill

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