Fleeting Quotes - Page 8

• Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Spiritual, Self

  Deepak Chopra (2003). “Golf for Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdom-light.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Light, Your Smile, Matter

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• He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

  Mary Balogh

  Blue, Sky, Heaven

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• Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

  Deborah Harkness

  Opportunity, Judgement, Dangerous

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• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Ideas, Goal

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.webexhibits.org. July 1880.

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• This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.

  James Frey

  Wall, Heart, Eye

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.262, Anchor

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• When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

  Robert Silverberg

  Dying, Vitality, Moments

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• I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Way, Tricks, Tolerate

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• Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.

  Richard Brautigan

  Horse, Dwarves, Knights

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• Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.

  Brent Weeks

  Wedding, Husband, Flower

  Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.475, Hachette UK

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• Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

  Jim Butcher

  Life Is Precious, Murphy, Fragile

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.161, Penguin

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• Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

  Paulo Coelho

  Surprise, Forgotten, Moments

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• It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

  Emily Giffin

  Human Nature, Occasional, Interest

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.60, Macmillan

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• What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

  John Green

  Art, Struggle, Mean

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Vivid, Strife

  Edgar Allan Poe, William Heath Robinson (2013). “The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the whole process of making war within ourselves and without, how it begins and how it ends. War’s roots are in ignorance. Without understanding we can easily become frightened by life’s fleeting changes, the inevitable losses, disappointments, the insecurity of our aging and death. Misunderstanding leads us to fight against life, running from pain or grasping at security and pleasures that by their nature can never be satisfying.

  Jack Kornfield

  Running, Pain, Disappointment

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• To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees – these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Pain, Believe

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

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• Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

  Sarah MacLean

  Giving Up, Temptation, Soul

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• This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own consequence on this earth. We look at the mountain, like god and can imagine nothing larger. Its incompressible life-span reminds us of the fleeting mortality of our own bones. It looms over our lives on clear days and and stay present but hidden through the clouds of winter. Like god it remains everywhere forever.

  Bruce Barcott

  Winter, Clouds, Forever

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• The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

  Sallust

  Wealth, Virtue, Glory

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• There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Memories, Benefits

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

  Johnny Cash

  Clothes, Furniture, Fame

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• Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  "Alden Ehrenreich Talks TWILIGHT Comparisons, Landing the Part, and Working with Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson on the Set of BEAUTIFUL CREATURES". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. November 8, 2012.

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• The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

  Lucian

  Passing Away, World, Tranquility

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• Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

  Michael Shermer

  Heart, Science, Thinking

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.124, Macmillan

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