Quotes About Transitory

The mind is used to, and marvelously capable of, moving quickly and harmonizing with the flow of life, which itself also has great mobility. Every time we intervene to make something that is transitory by nature last, we block the natural flow of life. Every time we intervene in an attempt to cut off a sensation or an emotion that does not correspond to our desires, we paralyze, we block the natural flow of life.

The first lesson that the sages of the Upanishads teach their selected pupils is the inadequacy of the intellect. How can this feeble brain, that aches at a little calculus, ever hope to understand the complex immensity of which it is so transitory a fragment?

All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. As memory scans the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures of life there leap forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled to do unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things too trifling to speak about, but which you feel have entered into your eternal life.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

The sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take one and the same direction, and their conscious personality vanishes. A collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory, but presenting very clearly defined characteristics.

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

I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef?

Some there be that shadow kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

Ciò che risplende fa così in fretta a svanire.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Transient guests are we.

When I empathize, I feel the frailty and transitory nature of another's existence. To empathize is to root for the other to flourish and experience the full potential of their short abide.

No, no, we are definitely writ on water. Or cognac -- if we've any luck at all.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

like a little thorn that catches for a moment on a traveler's sleeve, only to pull out when the traveler walks on.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

This is the nice note, I can't help thinking. But just like a sound, as soon as the note hits the air, it begins to fade.

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

We are but dust and shadow.

Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.

El Sufismo es sistematizado sólo por períodos transitorios o limitados; él es principalmente instrumental, no para disfrute o exposición.

Happiness is a fleeting thing, little mistress. You cannot hold it in your hand, you cannot smell it or taste it—you can only take it when it comes along.