Quotes About Moment

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

Us the most fleeting of all. Just once,everything, only for once. Once and no more. And we, too,once. And never again. But thishaving been once, though only once,having been once on earth—can it ever be canceled?

Then he leaned over, right there in the restaurant parking lot, and kissed me. And it wasn't a friendship kiss, either. It was tender and real, and utterly romantic.

This" Today, my love, leaves are thrashing the wind just as pedestrians are erecting again the buildings of this drab forbidding city, and our lives, as I lose track of them, are the lives of others derailing in time and getting things done. Impossible to make sense of any one face or mouth, though each distance is clear, and you are miles from here. Let your pure space crowd my heart, that we might stay awhile longer amid the flying debris. This moment, I swear it, isn't going anywhere.

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

Time, You Old Gypsy Man Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)

fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both sart out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

Be here now.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind

Lightning flashed off to the east. It struck somewhere out beyond the city, flickered for a moment, lit up the sky.

All that matters is what we do with the instant we are given.

The purpose of life is to be a part of it, to be the creator of it, to illuminate it. There is no other destiny than to live and to allow yourself to be whatever you desire to be as life unfolds within you, moment to moment to moment. And in fulfilling that purpose, know that you have the unlimited freedom to become and do and be whatever you desire.

Even if the scan results are bad tomorrow," I had told her, "I just want you to know that it feels great to be alive, and to be here today, alive with you. Whatever news we get about the scans, I'm not going to die when we hear it. I won't die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much I'm enjoying it.

Delight, unfortunately, doesn't last. It's like the smile from a beautiful stranger in a stairwell — it's fleeting. It cannot be otherwise — recognition is not an extended process.

there often comes a moment, in the heat of your desperation, when you call a "time-out." And you withdraw from the cyclone of illusion that swirls around you. And you find, after all that drama, that the stillness within is still there waiting. It never left. You did. And you scattered a mind-boggling trail of chaos behind you. So that, when all else fails—as it inevitably does—you would find your way home.

Live every day like it's your last, 'cause one day you're gonna be right.

Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right