Good life Quote by Periander Download Open image “Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.” — Periander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good life Honor Immortal Pleasure Transient
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they? — Colin Beavan Copy Share Image
“But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Without patience and interest, one will only have access to immediate pleasures—which are good, but much lower in quality than the pleasures gained over… — Olivier Magny Copy Share Image
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white,… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. — Periander Copy Share Image
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin. — Periander Copy Share Image
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth. — Periander Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days,… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
“We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.” — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“A child says ‘Thank God for my good dinner’. What can I say at seventy-five? ‘Thank God for my good life, and for all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Our lives together, our duet, also continues to evolve, and even if we can’t go back to how it was, we’re designing a good… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life."… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
