Sentence examples for transitory happiness from inspiring English sources
It's impulsive and transitory happiness, a brief whiff of the infinite possibilities of a new trenchcoat.
The company outlines a process by which personalities could be downloaded from the cloud to "provide states or moods representing transitory conditions of happiness, fear, surprise, perplexion, thoughtfulness, derision and so forth.
And they will use foods to represent concepts: telling us not only that the bread is the sacred body, but also, for the Jews at Passover, that the dish of crushed apples and nuts is the mortar used by their enslaved predecessors to build warehouses for the Egyptians or, for Zen Buddhists, that the cups of slowly brewing tea are tokens of the transitory nature of happiness in a floating world.
It consists in showing that our happiness and well-being lie not in a life enslaved to the passions and to the transitory goods we ordinarily pursue; nor in the related unreflective attachment to the superstitions that pass as religion, but rather in the life of reason.
Vain transitory splendours!
Others, still regarding happiness as a state of mind, have tried to distinguish it from pleasure on the grounds that it is mental, not bodily; enduring, not transitory; and rational, not emotional.
"Everything is transitory," he said.
Brazil's talent is transitory.
