“ Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people. ”
- Bill Moyers- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Herman Hesse- Copy
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“ Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Modernity is the transitory, fugitive, contingent, is but one half of art, of which the other half is the eternal and immutable. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal. ”
- Eliphas Levi- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. ”
- Jerry Seinfeld- Copy
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“ Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation. ”
- Sid Taylor- Copy
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“ Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. ”
- Tecumseh- Copy
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“ Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies! ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. ”
- Konstantin Stanislavisky- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 2.2K
“ A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. ”
- Henry Louis Mencken- Copy
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“ The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return. ”
- Vilayat Inayat Khan- Copy
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“ Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pinpricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition. Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work… ”
- Grenville Kleiser- Copy
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“ To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. ”
- Malcolm De Chazal- Copy
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“ For character too is a process and an unfolding… among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations? ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
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“ We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parentheses in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other, and this moment will have been worthwhile. ”
- Deepak Chopra- Copy
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“ When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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