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• None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.

  James Goldsmith

  Life, Strong, Regret

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• God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

  Frederick William Robertson

  God, Sacred, Fit

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.230

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• Aunque está muy bien distinguir entre la felicidad pasajera y la duradera, entre la felicidad efímera y la auténtica, la única felicidad de la que tiene sentido hablar cuando una persona se está muriendo de sed es el acceso al agua.

  Dalai Lama

  Significado, Agua, Morir

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• Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].

  Warren Farrell

  Empleo, Hombres, Dar

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.

  Fred Hoyle

  Stars, Achievement, Century

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• Mártires y perseguidores son el mismo tipo de hombre. En cuanto a cuál es el perseguidor y cuál el mártir, esto es sólo una cuestión de poder transitorio.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Atheism, Type

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• Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.

  Federico Lenz

  Buddhism, Agony, Mind

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• There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words, we do all the stuff you're supposed to normally avoid to become enlightened, intentionally.

  Federico Lenz

  Philosophy, Enlightenment, Stuff

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• The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

  Federico Lenz

  Personality, Samskara, Infancy

  Frederick Lenz (1994). "Navegando por el Himalaya: conversaciones y viajes con el maestro Fwap", Interglobal Seminars

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• Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.

  William Muir

  Sweet, Flower, Wings

  William Muir (1818). “Poems on Various Subjects”, p.91

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• Mansions once
  Knew their own masters, and laborious hinds,
  That had surviv'd the father, serv'd the son.
  Now the legitimate and rightful lord
  Is but a transient guest, newly arrived,
  And soon to be supplanted. He that saw
  His patrimonial timber cast its leaf,
  Sells the last scantling, and transfers the price
  To some shrewd sharper ere it buds again. Estates are landscapes, gazed upon awhile,
  Then advertised and auctioneer'd away.

  William Cowper

  Father, Son, Bud

  William Cowper (1828). “The Poems of William Cowper”, p.227

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• Todo lo que tienes que hacer es jugar mejor que los demás y las cosas irán bien. Si no juegas mejor que los demás, alguien te sustituye. Hoy en día, con la naturaleza transitoria de este deporte, muchos jugadores, en cuanto la competencia es demasiado buena, quieren irse.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Player, Guy

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• Me gustan las estrellas. Es la ilusión de permanencia, creo. Quiero decir, siempre están estallando y derrumbándose y apagándose. Pero desde aquí, puedo fingir... puedo fingir que las cosas duran. Puedo fingir que las vidas duran más que los momentos. Los dioses vienen y se van. Los mortales parpadean, centellean y se desvanecen. Los mundos no duran, y las estrellas y las galaxias son transitorias, cosas fugaces que centellean como luciérnagas y se desvanecen en el frío y el polvo. Pero puedo fingir.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Stars, Mean

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

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• I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

  Jimmy Carter

  Real, Taken, Political

  "Jimmy Carter Talking About Himself... His Record... His Campaign". Interview with Meg Greenfield, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 1980.

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• Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.

  Federico Lenz

  Pain, Forever, Mind

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• Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

  Anthony Daniels

  Quality, Modernity

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• If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient .

  Federico Lenz

  Yoga, Giants, Attention

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• Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.

  Maimónides

  Essence, Substance, Body

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1008, Moses Maimonides

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• Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Epic, Rushing

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• The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Essentials, Fundamentals, Influence

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• From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in a state of purity, but always more or less granulated (even in light) energy nowadays represents for science the most primitive form of universal stuff.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Ciencia, Luz, Mayo

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• De estos prejuicios surgen los conflictos, las alegrías pasajeras y los sufrimientos. Pero somos inconscientes de ello, inconscientes de que somos esclavos de ciertas formas de tradición, del entorno social y político, de falsos valores.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Amor, Vida, Verdad

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• He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

  Jim Elliot

  Short Life, Godly, Fire

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• Quizá la razón más profunda por la que tememos a la muerte es que no sabemos quiénes somos. Creemos en una identidad personal, única y separada; pero si nos atrevemos a examinarla, descubrimos que esta identidad depende por completo de una interminable colección de cosas para apuntalarla: nuestro nombre, nuestra "biografía", nuestra pareja, familia, casa, trabajo, amigos, tarjeta de crédito... De su frágil y transitorio apoyo depende nuestra seguridad. Cuando nos los quiten, ¿sabremos quiénes somos realmente?

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Espiritual, Trabajo, Creer

  Sogyal Rimpoché (2009). "El libro tibetano de la vida y la muerte: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition", p.25, Harper Collins

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• The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die... but the forms are dissolved.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Inspiración, Vida, Positivo

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