Quotes About Temporary

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through.

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

He's just a flash in the pants.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

And like a colorful bloom of temporary lights in the sky, you will shine.

It is futile to strive for earthly things and to trust in riches that will perish. It is futile to desire honors and lift up ourselves. It is futile to be ruled by the desires of our physical body, for this will only bring misery in the end. It is futile to desire a long life and to care little for a good life. It is futile to concentrate on the here and now and not look forward to the things which are eternal. It is futile to love temporary things and not strive toward eternal joy.

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

know that it wouldn't offend me to be a substitute, because we are all of us substitutes for someone, especially initially:

Wal-Mart's relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador's eyeglass. Like temporary forts built solely for purposes of territorial conquest, any one of them can be abandoned at any time.