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• True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Mean, Essentials, Indifferent

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• Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Long, Woe, Pleasure

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Oberon, II, 52, 1922.

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• God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

  Os Guinness

  Source, Unstable, Humans

  Os Guinness (2014). “Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times”, p.26, InterVarsity Press

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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

  Life, Wise, Depressing

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• The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

  Anthony Storr

  Imagination, Missing, Desire

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

  Willard Gaylin

  Independence, Finals, Libertarian

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• I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Paint, Effects, Ifs

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• I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself to believe in its worth. Young men are often guilt-ridden about pleasure, and I suppose I was no different. I suppose I thought that to pass away one's time in such places, to spend one's skills celebrating things so intangible and transient, I suppose I thought it all rather wasteful, all rather decadent. It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Believe, Men, Skills

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2012). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.150, Vintage

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• The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Light, Joy

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 11, 2016

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• someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely in one of those destinies that is ringed around by the transient tinsel of human applause.

  Mary Deasy

  Destiny, Kind, Fame

  Mary Deasy (1955). “The Boy who Made Good”

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• Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Merit, Doe

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• Tech stocks were the cubic zirconium of the market. They looked good and were sexy, but they just were a way for the company selling them to make money. That's always going to be transient in terms of the stock market. What's real is that companies have to compete. Technology used well is a great tool to enable that if only because most companies dont use technologies well.

  Mark Cuban

  Sexy, Real, Technology

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Bliss

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil.

  Harriet Martineau

  Powerful, Sick, Evil

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.17

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• Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Comes And Goes

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Passion, Order

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• For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper. Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moon nor fire-fly has shown me the cause-way to it. Nature is a personality so vast and universal that we have never seen one of her features.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Moon, Fire

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• In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.

  Laura Mullen

  Museums, Texas, Confusing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hard Work, Long, Effort

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• What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiration, Heart, Yield

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Sleep, Men, Dust

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• How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Regret, Memorial

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1846). “Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals”, p.69

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• For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Events, Causes

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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• I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Technology, Economy, Made

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• Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Real, Men, Discrimination

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