Quotes About Moment

Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.

one must not allow the clock and the calender to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle --and mystery

Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity.

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead.

All that's real is the moment right in front of you. Don't miss that moment, because that's where your life is.

Today, and this very moment, is a gift.

The most important moment is now. Learn to live in it and savor it fully.

the past is water under the bridge and the future is a distant sun on the horizon of your imagination. The most important moment is now. Learn to live in it and savor it fully.

Vive hoy, pues ya no habrá otro día igual que éste —

We are always getting ready to live, but never living." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live for today — there will never be another one quite like it," stated

dream. Harold Melchert explained it like this: 'Live your life each day as if you would climb mountains. An occasional glance toward the summit puts the goal in mind. Many beautiful scenes can be observed from each new vantage point. Climb steadily, slowly, enjoy each passing moment; and the view from the

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

Time will pass whether you do it or not

When you're young you don't realize that at every age you are always in the present, and in that sense no older;

One of the most sublime and hazardous moments in human experience comes when two people lock eyes and realize that they are sexually attracted to one another. They may not act on the knowledge. They may file it away for future reference. They may deny it. They may never see each other again. But the moment has happened, and for an instant all other considerations are insignificant.

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment that it appears to be crushed.

Goodbye is derived from the phrase "God be with you." A blessing is the offering of one heart to another; to another person, to a situation, to life itself. Isn't that what we are here for? To bless the savor of this precious moment even as it slips through our fingers? To allow its sorrow, its joy, its silence or laughter to enter our life stream and add a measure to who we are? This is the spirit of these ten poems, and the hope of this book.

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realization and then a little realization built on that.

When I put my trust in a critic, this is tantamount to saying that I defer to his judgement, even when I have made no judgement of my own. But my own judgement waits upon experience. It is only when I have heard the piece in question, in the moment of appreciation, that my borrowed opinion can actually become a judgement of mine.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.