I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
You have no idea How much you do for mankind When you love God unconditionally Even for a fleeting moment.
It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.
Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.
You told me love was fickle and fleeting.
You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.
Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
It's just that that feels discriminatory to me, "the ideal woman. " The concept of ideal is fleeting. It's like "perfect. " There's no such thing.
Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.
Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.
Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?
You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself.
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.