{"quotes":[{"text":"You areas fleetingly beautifulas a mother’s tearsand a father’s pranksa brother’s bachelorhoodand a best friend’s bad mooda bride’s glittering jittersand a handsome stranger’s smile.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["bachelorhood","bad-mood","beautiful","best-friends","bride","father","fleeting","fleeting-life","glittering","handsome","moments","mother","poetry","poetry","smile","strangers"],"id":5325,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"This is the only truth in the world that was necessary yesterday, is necessary today, and will continue to be necessary tomorrow: be conscious of now.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["adage","aware","awareness","awareness","consciousness","fleeting","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life-philosophy","maxim","meditate","meditation","mindfulness","moment","motto","necessary","now","philosophy","power-of-now","present","present-moment","quote","temporary","time","today","tomorrow","transient","truth","yesterday"],"id":7663,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"In a worldfull oftemporary thingsyou area perpetual feeling.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["feelings","fleeting","forever","forever-love","hopeless-romantic","perpetual","poetry","poetry","poets","soulful","soulmates","temporary","valentine-s-day"],"id":9221,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"Life and summer are fleeting,’ sang the bird. ‘Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.","author":"Elyne Mitchell","tags":["change","dark","fleeting","life","snow","summer","winter"],"id":12519,"author_id":"Elyne+Mitchell"},{"text":"There is no tomorrow..It is always today. Tomorrow is the fleeting and minute distance..Between hope \u0026 once more..Once again!","author":"Victoria June","tags":["again","always","between","distance","fleeting","hope","minutes","today","tomorrow"],"id":30436,"author_id":"Victoria+June"},{"text":"You can change your life or not change it. It really doesn’t matter in the end.Life as humans live it is too fleeting, too incidental, too minisculefor the universe to keep forever.So just do good to others; be good, allbecause it makes you happy,happy beyond fame, power, andeternity.","author":"Psyche Roxas-Mendoza","tags":["change","fleeting","incidental","inspirational","life","universe"],"id":43313,"author_id":"Psyche+Roxas-Mendoza"},{"text":". . .Our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees—then, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance—our wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind. . .","author":"John Daniel Thieme","tags":["confession","fleeting","futility","ignoring","impermanence","love","meaningless","uselessness","whispering","whispers","wind","words"],"id":44526,"author_id":"John+Daniel+Thieme"},{"text":"At the end of the day all we ever need is something that helped pass the time and something that keeps time from passing.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["day","fleeting","fleeting-life","life","moments","moments-of-life","moments","poetry","poetry","time","time-passing"],"id":98240,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a brief and momentary purpose coherent to a context rooted in contiguous reason. This unbridled brash Spirit is, to itself, burdensome, yet dynamic, for it sees no flaw in working within the confines of a closed system to achieve ends that extend beyond it. This Spirit is, in fact, self-deceptive for to achieve such ends, it becomes necessary to bound manipulable fragments of the Self with a twine by which these parts can be joined indissolubly and maneuvered adroitly with the skill of a marionettist.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["ephemerality","evanescence","fleeting","form","marionette","multiple-universes","parasitism","past-lives","poetry","puppetry","spirit","transcendentalism"],"id":101553,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"},{"text":"If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["aware","awareness","be","consciousness","content","day","ephemera","ephemeral","fleeting","future","happy","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","let-go","life","merry","now","past","peace","power-of-now","presence","present","return","today","tomorrow","transient","truth"],"id":106926,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}