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• Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I'd ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with.

  Stuart Dybek

  Missing Someone, Laughing, Feelings

  Stuart Dybek (1990). “The coast of Chicago”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.

  Ita Buttrose

  Wisdom, Impossible, Loser

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• The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take specific bold actions which they ordinarily believe would not otherwise be possible or politically acceptable...In effect, envisaged solutions can become rapidly translated into practical options for action following a major disaster or near-miss.

  John Beddington

  Believe, Opportunity, Impact

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• The amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon.

  Peter Lesley

  Years, Oil, Twenties

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• Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

  Audre Lorde

  Powerful, Views, Differences

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• Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Fasting, Flesh, Spirit

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.83, Charisma Media

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• Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

  Vanna Bonta

  Optimism, Interruptions, Ideals

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• It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Pain, Thinking, Forever

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• It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiring, Law Of Attraction, Impossible Things

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jan 28, 2015

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• Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

  Clay Shirky

  Mean, Identity, Behavior

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.71, Penguin

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• A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

  Lisi Harrison

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Burritos

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• How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!

  Gail Carriger

  Cases, Idiocy, Knows

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• Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.

  Matt Rees

  Blow, Cells, People

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• Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Fun, Hands, Joy

  Liz Curtis Higgs (2004). “Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn From Them”, p.8, WaterBrook

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• Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that it should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?

  Warsan Shire

  Falling In Love, Hands, Wish

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• Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

  Andy Stanley

  Stewardship

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• When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Cash Flow, Balance, Size

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• Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.230

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• I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

  Diana Nyad

  Pain, Mean, Long

  Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

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• Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Opportunity, Careers

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.65, Penguin

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• The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary.

  Joel Osteen

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Doors, Temporary Defeat

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.16, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is #‎ eternal .

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Soul, Body, Neglect

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• Reputation Is Temporary..As Much as The Man Owning Your Reputation Is

  Sujit Lalwani

  Men, Reputation, He Man

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• Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

  John Ortberg

  Wise, People, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2014

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