{"quotes":[{"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":"And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe.","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["astrophysics","humans","people","perspective","scale","space","stars","transient"],"id":26086,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"},{"text":"Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish","debasish-mridha","failure","mridha","philosophy","succeed","success","transient","yearning","yearning-to-succeed"],"id":36873,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it. ","author":"Robert South","tags":["hatred","like","transient "],"id":37054,"author_id":"Robert+South"},{"text":"What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral,What you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish","ephemeral","eternal","everlasting","eyes","heart","life","mridha","philosophy","transient"],"id":59160,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["things","transient "],"id":96328,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"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"},{"text":"Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.","author":"Ahmed Mostafa","tags":["bitterness","bitterness","bittersweet","darkness","happiness","happiness","misery","momentary","permanence","transience","transiency","transient"],"id":121014,"author_id":"Ahmed+Mostafa"},{"text":"In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds would stop over in those days for a single performance in Jackson's Century Theatre. Then, as now, my imagination was magnetized toward transient artists - toward the transience as much as the artists. I must have seen 'Acrobats in a Park' at the time I wrote the story as exotic, free of any experience as I knew it. At the center of the little story is the Zorro's act: the feat of erecting a structure of their bodies that holds together, interlocked, and stands like a wall. Writing about the family act, I was writing about the family itself, its strength as a unit, testing its frailty under stress. I treated it in an artificial and oddly formal way; the stronghold of the family is put on view as a structure built each night; on the night before the story opens, the Wall has come down when the most vulnerable member slips, and the act is done for. But from various points within it and from outside it, I've been writing about the structure of the family in stories and novels ever since. In spite of my uncompromising approach to it, my fundamental story form might have been trying to announce itself to me.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["artists","family","frailty","imagination","strength","transient","vulnerable","writing"],"id":169907,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["always","brief","compose","endure","enduring","ephemera","ephemeral","eternal","eternity","fleeting","forever","here","immortal","immortality","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lasting","living","momentary","mortal","novelist","passing","permanence","permanent","perpetual","poem","poet","poetess","poetry","poetry","read","reader","reading","recite","short","sit","temporary","transient","transitory","write","writer","writing","writing"],"id":189771,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}