Browsing Topic Best Temporary Quotes

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Don’t make a permanent decision on temporary feelings.

Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.

Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them

The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I’m not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

The Bible never belittles human disappointment … but it does add one key word: temporary.

What is good about Good Friday? Why isn’t it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give or take a few mutations are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years; or, in other words, ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes. Each individual organism should be seen as a temporary vehicle, in which DNA messages spend a tiny fraction of their geological lifetimes.

So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we’re slowly suffocating.

Your trial is temporary, but God’s Love is permanent.

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

We are individualized aspects of that oversoul, and the individualized soul – yours and mine and everyone else’s on the planet – incarnates over and over and over again in a physical body, emotional astral body and mental body. These three bodies are temporary bodies that the soul creates and uses for a given time, long or short.

Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

Fame is temporary, make it longterm by putting smiles on people’s hearts and helping others by expecting nothing in return. Be famous and unforgettable for your Unconditional Love.

They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

Edward Snowden gave a little press conference today. He is apparently seeking temporary asylum in Russia. Because, you know, when you’re tired of the government snooping into everything you do, Putin’s Russia is definitely the place you want to go.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.