Transitory Quotes

120 quotes by 94 authors

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up. — Frederick Lenz
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and… — Frederick Lenz
As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity. — Frederick Lenz
Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana. — Frederick Lenz
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its… — George Nakashima
All things are only transitory. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. — William Law
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion… — Franz Liszt
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. — Ramakrishna
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that… — Patrick Stewart
He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that… — Hermann Hesse
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age. — Wassily Kandinsky
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among… — Marcel Proust
Everything transitory is but an image. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together. — George Santayana
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have… — Tennessee Williams

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