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There is no tomorrow..it is always today. Tomorrow is the fleeting and minute distance..between hope & once more..once again! — Victoria June

Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting. — Michele Poague

The world was a merciless place. Hard and cruel. Except when you found someone to trust and love. Life, however fleeting, possessed meaning then. — Sophie Jordan

I guess I always knew that our time together would be fleeting. Ephemeral. — Cynthia Hand

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn. — Frederick Leboyer

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim. — Henry James

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime. — James Joyce

Writing is about freedom. It may become precious and fleeting at any time. Don't let anybody shackle down your wings with doubt. — B.A. Gabrielle

They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again. — Marie Lu

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool. — Michael Mosley

Love is fickle and fleeting, — Erin Morgenstern

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. — Hunter S. Thompson

I'd found love
only to discover how fleeting it can be. — Debbie Macomber

Time is fleeting. But the impact we make within that time is eternal. — Orly Wahba

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important. — Frank Serpico

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. — Andrew Wyeth

Happiness is fleeting. Happiness is just the calm before the storm. And the happier you are, the more you have to lose when it hits. — Ranae Glass

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. — Emily Giffin

A free soul can truly be at rest. Only a free soul can see the world as it is, superficial and fleeting. — Ilchi Lee

Here we are! Shooting stars. Shooting stars? They burn. Fleeting glimpse. We become human as we fall. — Fadia Faqir

Who can wish for happiness that is bought at the price of reason, whose fleeting pleasures are at least followed by regret, if not remorse? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire

My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life. — Omar Khayyam

Everything in the media is fleeting. Don't get the wrong idea. Fame is when you're still the hot topic next week or even the week after. — Miki Aihara

All glory is fleeting and so are we — Moi

I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for. — Peter Davis

I had learned a fundamental truth about killing: The victim's anguish is brief and fleeting, but the murderer's endures forever. — Jeanne Kalogridis

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting. — Samuel Johnson

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime. — Joe Johnston

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt. — Gautama Buddha

It is easy to pride yourself on brains when you had both brains and beauty. Beauty was fleeting, and here was the proof. It was gone. — Nicki Salcedo

Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job. — Nikki Rowe

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. — Robert Breault

Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted, — Kate Atkinson

Happiness is a habit,
it's more than fleeting,
more than a disintegrating lozenge. — Brian D'Ambrosio

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice. — Joyce Carol Oates

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now. — James Clavell

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! — Horace

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. — Tori Amos

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. — Stefan Zweig

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received. — Francesco Guicciardini

The fleeting moment became Whole. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Oh my God, but art is long / and our life is fleeting. — Ghadirian

That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself. — Miriam Toews

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. — Tennessee Williams

Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Reality can be mischievous at times, fragile, fleeting; with the potential to change vastly without warning. — Steven Redhead

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting. — Felix Dennis

Our separation so abides, and flies,
That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,
And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. — William Shakespeare

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind
a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house. — Woody Allen

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. — Chuck Norris

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting. — Nicolas Berggruen

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment. — Robert Silverberg

If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old. — Bai Juyi

It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment. — Martin Esslin

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things. — Mark O'Donnell

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it. — Geddy Lee

You'll learn all too soon, Gibben Nemesio, that youth is fleeting. Immaturity, however, can be nurtured for a lifetime. — Shiriluna Nott

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting. — Tamara Tunie

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it. — Taylor Swift

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. — Marcus Aurelius

Life is fleeting;
your joys make it seem even shorter,
but your sorrows make it seem too long. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal. — Jerold Panas

Happiness is like rising bubbles
delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen
ever present. — Danielle LaPorte

The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay? — Lucian

A single fleeting word has the power to make or break a person. — Tammy Faith

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more. — John Wooden

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much. — Marina And The Diamonds

Never let yourself be swayed by emotions,' her mother had said. 'Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever. — Monica Fairview

Happiness is temporary and fleeting ... Joy is the right goal. — Guy Kawasaki

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme. — Ali MacGraw

Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn; — Umberto Eco

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! — John Milton

All that I possess and use Is like the fleeting vision of a dream. It fades into the realms of memory, And fading, will be seen no more. — Santideva

I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing. — Sue Monk Kidd

Our stories are phantoms of fleeting moments reflected in mirrors. — Dennis Vickers

You have no idea
How much you do for mankind
When you love God unconditionally
Even for a fleeting moment. — Sri Chinmoy

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. — Frank Iero

There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days. The — Winston Graham

It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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. — Franz Kafka

As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are ... can give them real staying power — Nir Eyal

Fleeting joy and fading ecstasy, here it goes again, oh,
Sneaking fruit from the forbidden tree, sweet taste of sin — John Legend

Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting. — Beth Brooke

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight. — Fran Lebowitz

There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace. — Dominic Smith

Passion is fleeting. Lust is momentary. Love is forever. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting. — Jonathan Heatt

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life. — Nellie McKay

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes. — Debbie Allen

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life. — Ann Brashares

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. — Sarah Strohmeyer

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows. — Ella Leya

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. — Epictetus

Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home. — Pierre-Jean De Beranger

Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for living. — Andrei Codrescu

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore. — William Osler

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. — Hippocrates