Top 100 Quotes About Transient
#1. Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.
Laozi
#2. Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
Maimonides
#3. Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization.
Debasish Mridha
#4. An idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again.
Wilhelm Wundt
#5. What I took to be the norm
taut, smooth, supple
was the transient special case of youth. To me, the old were a separate species, like sparrows or foxes.
Ian McEwan
#6. Always somewhere there was light, and, though transient, it flashed all the more brilliantly because of the surrounding dark.
Vaddey Ratner
#7. She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
Thomas Hardy
#8. The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things
Meher Baba
#9. Life is a transient phenomenon with eternal reflection.
Debasish Mridha
#10. I was quite small as a kid and maybe a little afraid physically. When I grew into myself, the realisation changed. That when you hurt yourself, it's transient; it doesn't stay forever.
Brian O'Driscoll
#11. Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.
Peace Pilgrim
#12. At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
Andy Goldsworthy
#13. He knew how she felt. It was the way he felt himself, sometimes, if he woke in the small hours, at three a.m., a time when the world seemed empty and stripped of comforting illusion. A time when you knew you were a mote, transient and fragile in a vast universe, a candle flame in an empty hall.
Terry Pratchett
#14. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Since nature allows us to enter into a partnership with every age, why not turn from this brief and transient spell of time and give ourselves wholeheartedly to the past, which is limitless and eternal and can be shared with better men than we?
Seneca.
#16. Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.
Gautama Buddha
#17. The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.
Frederick Lenz
#18. There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.
Frederick Lenz
#19. There are no plans, just people fooling themselves by attempting to design their fates and futures. It makes them feel invincible, even if it's for a transient period of time.
Kanza Javed
#20. I am really OK with the way I look. It's fine. All this is transient. I mean, it's really, you know, it changes with time, and that's the external.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#21. A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H.L. Mencken
#22. Events are transient, feelings are momentary, perception is optional and internalization is life long.
Debasish Mridha
#23. The power of weapons is transient and destroys everything. The power of love is everlasting and creates all things.
Debasish Mridha
#24. The Human Condition has a vacancy ... a transient declaring It's Self The Victor! Till death do us part in This War for human isolation.
Rosemarie Yusen
#25. 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.
Joseph Addison
#26. Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.
Nora Roberts
#27. Outer beauty is transient, but the inner beauty of a kind heart gets brighter with time. Be kind and get prettier forever.
Debasish Mridha
#28. When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.
Peace Pilgrim
#30. Nobody tells you when success comes around; in its transient way, you're just working and exhausted all the time. Sometimes I think I'm just sleeping in the back of cars, d'you know what I mean?
James Corden
#32. Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.
George Bernard Shaw
#33. Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.
Ian Bremmer
#34. I couldn't look away. My guts wrenched with the transient impact, like walking through a humming electric shock.
S.J. Lomas
#35. I'll begin with the most basic.What are you?"
"Pussy Cat Doll?" she asked, immediately doing a slow headshake at his look. "Judge, jury and
executioner." He scowled. Her eyes lit up. "Transient! What? Really. No? Babe in Toyland?
Kresley Cole
#36. Please protect me through the dangers and confusion of my transient life on earth, ensuring that in all things I strive for eternal life in Heaven.
David P. Gushee
#37. 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.
Jimmy Carter
#38. Outbox and its inherent transient nature - is it a take on life itself ? momentary, independent, fleeting and somewhat meaningless dwelling for all creations on their way out - to sent items.
Sunil Raina
#39. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.
Frederick Lenz
#41. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
#42. The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.
Emma Lazarus
#43. I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
Horst Koehler
#44. Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.
H. P. Blavatsky
#45. even the short-lived humans divide their lives into segments, though they rarely recognize the transient truth as they move through one or another stage of their existence.
R.A. Salvatore
#46. Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.
Vincent Nichols
#47. Jefferson writes dismissively of slaves that "their griefs are transient." American white supremacists to this day maintain that blacks are "mud people" because their lack of conscience prevents them from blushing - they are not capable of summoning "blood in the face," as the
Christopher Hitchens
#48. [Bells] speak to us of our freedom, which responsibilities and transient cares make us forget.
Thomas Merton
#49. In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
Viswanathan Anand
#50. It is simply not possible to live in a state of acute fear and shock for more than a couple of weeks, and so the mind finds a path, a story, a way onwards. Shock is by definition transient, even when the shocking thing is here to stay.
Sarah Moss
#51. When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
George Bernard Shaw
#52. If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.
Frederick Lenz
#53. Frequently, to be an American then was to be periodically unmoored, transient, so bereft of options that moving on was the only choice.
Rinker Buck
#54. I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn't fit them or if it doesn't fit in their schedule, they'll move on to something else. That's a norm in today's time.
Marvin Sapp
#55. Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.
Edith Wharton
#56. Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
Hermann Hesse
#57. 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.
J.H. Wyman
#58. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself.
Swami Vivekananda
#59. We're in a transient state - why hate our present selves? Let's save the energy for when we are eighty, when we are perhaps above, or beyond, changing. Then we can hate, if hate we must.
Ruth Reichl
#60. The most transient and trivial of infatuations lack any real cause, and that's even truer of feelings that go far deeper, infinitely deeper than that.
Javier Marias
#61. The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
Edward Hopper
#62. Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
Jack Kornfield
#63. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#64. The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#65. Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
Constantin Stanislavski
#66. Kindness can be short, sweet, transient, and random, but its effects echo forever.
Debasish Mridha
#67. Words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.
Vaddey Ratner
#68. The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.
Frederick Lenz
#69. Every thing-become is mortal. Not only peoples, languages, races and Culture are transient.
Oswald Spengler
#70. I knew then and there only that pretty young little things are like monsoon lilies; transient trams. Catch them if you can, but if you miss them, do not wail, a next one would be whistling round the corner, about to enter the La Gurre of your heart
Aporva Kala
#71. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru Nanak
#73. Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.
Frederick Lenz
#74. Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.
Debasish Mridha
#75. We don't knoe when we're going to make our exits. But one day we'll pass away from this carnival with all its masks and roles, and only a few transient props will remain after us, until they too are swept away. We will step outside time, leave what we call 'reality'.
Jostein Gaarder
#76. Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room in a strange town. The worst is when you draw a blank, and the ash-blonde ghosts of the past carry on long twittering long-distance calls with your inner ear, and there's no way to hang up.
Ross Macdonald
#77. 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.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#78. I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
Abraham Verghese
#79. We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.
Sharon Salzberg
#80. When you came right down to it, how did anyone know they weren't a character in some writer's story, or a transient thought in some bus-riding schmoe's head, or a momentary mote in God's eye?
Stephen King
#81. The window glows. The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room. Everything transient and aching; everything tentative. To be here, in this room, high in this house, out of the cellar, with her: it is like medicine.
Anthony Doerr
#82. Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
St. Jerome
#83. Just as on a dark night black with clouds, The sudden lightning glares and all is clearly shown, Likewise rarely, through the Buddhas' power, Virtuous thoughts rise, brief and transient, in the world.
Santideva
#84. The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
Alfred North Whitehead
#85. What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring
Soren Kierkegaard
#86. Fear and failure are always present. Accept them as part of life and learn how to manage these realities. Be scared, but keep going. Being scared is usually transient. It will pass. If you fail, fix the causes and keep going.
Colin Powell
#87. Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the power to summon up neither the memory nor the illusion of any other, truer self. As a passerby I had a right to insist on my identity.
Kenzaburo Oe
#88. And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
Robert Browning
#89. There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
Hanya Yanagihara
#90. Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.
Richard Baxter
#91. From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#93. For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#95. If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
James Bovard
#96. Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.
Fred Hoyle
#97. Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed.
H.P. Lovecraft
#98. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#99. The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.
Billy Graham
#100. Insofar as a purely transient construction of flesh and blood can remember (or foretell) what it is to be stone, Lucy understood the mountain's wish to listen at the window of a den of gamblers and be warmed by all that free-floating hope and desolation.
Helen Oyeyemi
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