Transient Quotes
Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.
I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.
The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.
Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.
Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.
Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.
Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.
Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.
Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.
Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.
If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.
The experiences that you have in astral dimensions are not essentially all that different from the experiences you have here in the physical dimension. They are all transient.
The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.
It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.
Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.
Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.
Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.
Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.
There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.
Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga.
The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.
I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.
I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.
Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.
Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.
Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
