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• Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Other Worlds, Mind, Body

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• As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attachment, Watches

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• The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Ideas

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• We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Eternity

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• The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, Growth, Wreaths

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

  Mary Livermore

  Mother, Wife, Titles

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• Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

  Arthur Balfour

  Men, Heaven, Age

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• Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applause—and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Believe, Character, Past

  Victor Davis Hanson (2010). “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Pain, World, Ephemeral

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Teaching, Artist, Age

  Wassily Kandinsky (1977). “Concerning the spiritual in art”, Dover Pubns

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• Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Reality, Tolerance

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

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• Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

  Tom Robbins

  Crush, Lying, Simple

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.81, Bantam

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• It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

  Milan Kundera

  Maturity, Mind, Favors

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• We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!

  Hudson Taylor

  Truth, Home, Dwelling

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• Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power. We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Opportunity, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.

  Thomas of Villanova

  Faith, Inspiration, Bread Of Life

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• You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Gestalt, Achieve, Stage

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• Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.

  Joseph Hertz

  Teaching, Dedication, Israel

  "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book". Book by Joseph Hertz, Morning Service: Preliminaries (p. 28),

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• When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.

  Charles Wagner

  Eye, Men, Sight

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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• To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ontology, Logic, Certainty

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.4, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
  The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
  'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy,
  We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

  William Wordsworth

  Betrayal, Blow, Men

  'The Borderers' (1842) act 3, l. 1539

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• At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Interesting, Conversation

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• She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Passion, Ignorance, Evil

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.613, Wordsworth Editions

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• I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Reality, Confusion

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• We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Body, Action

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