A Quote by Eugene Ionesco

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

Eugene Ionesco

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Ephemeral Lasting Only Value

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Eugene Ionesco
French - Dramatist
November 26, 1909 - March 28, 1994

Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

Lapo Elkann

While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

Dalai Lama

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

Winston Churchill

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

Eldridge Cleaver

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Daryl Hall

Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.

Janet Morris

Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.

Zicheng Hong

So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose

Martin Seligman

My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.

Gae Aulenti

It takes a team to do anything of lasting value

John C. Maxwell

A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

John C. Maxwell

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.