Dallin H. Oaks Quotes
Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.
Quotes to Explore
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.
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I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly
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and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
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While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent.
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Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
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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.
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See how they were wrong about what was temporary.
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Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.
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Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
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I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.
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The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
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Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.
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...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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They played really hard. We played hard in spurts. It's the first time in a long time we got outplayed. We're not a great scoring team. When we don't have a defensive mind-set, we're in trouble.
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As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour
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Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.
