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• Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Abandon

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• And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Looks, Alive

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• 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

  Leaving, Mind, Boards

  Edith Wharton (2012). “Short Stories”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.

  Zadie Smith

  Character, Past, Names

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• The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Personality, Vision

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• We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.

  Ralph Caplan

  Substance, Proud, Way

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• [...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

  Frederick Douglass

  Heart, Opportunity, Perfection

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• I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

  Horst Kohler

  Christian, Ethics, Action

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• 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

  Feelings, East, Gone

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.383, Wordsworth Editions

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• Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths to turn people into icons, nor did he presume to show their “true nature” in something so transient as a photograph. Instead, he used photography's special qualities to suggest intimate things about his subjects, things that cannot be put into words, and may not even be possible to put into pictures.

  Sebastian Smee

  Photography, Icons, People

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• Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Life, Opportunity, World

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

  Os Guinness

  Source, Unstable, Humans

  Os Guinness (2014). “Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times”, p.26, InterVarsity Press

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• 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

  Ignorance, Self, Snakes

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• Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Long, Woe, Pleasure

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Oberon, II, 52, 1922.

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• A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

  William Wordsworth

  Kissing, Simple, Simplicity

  'She was a phantom of delight' (1807)

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• To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Mistake, Law, Psychology

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• Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Words Of Wisdom, Trying, Diligence

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• I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Play, Identity, Different

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• Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

  Duane Michals

  Fashion, Art, Two

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• Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance of creation and annihilation, of mass changing into energy and energy changing into mass. Transient forms sparkle in and out of existence, creating a never-ending, forever newly created reality.

  Gary Zukav

  Reality, Creating, Forever

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

  Laozi

  Time, Expression, Space

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Paint, Effects, Ifs

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• The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

  Anthony Storr

  Imagination, Missing, Desire

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Nudge Nudge, Friendly

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.74, University of Georgia Press

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• All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

  Willard Gaylin

  Independence, Finals, Libertarian

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