Quotes About Moment

For a moment, it was just him. Him and the wind. He fought with her, and she laughed.

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Enjoy the moment," Evi told him. "Close your eyes and contemplate what the One has given you. Seek the peace of oblivion, and bask in the joy of your own sensation.

Jorgen Weight stepped into the infirmary, flight helmet under his arm. Perhaps he should have stowed the helmet, but there was no rule requiring it - and he felt good carrying it. It made hime feel ready to fly at a moment's notice. Gave him the illusion that he was in control. - Jorgen; Starsight: Brandon Sanderson, Skyward Series

If we slow down, Jasnah said, the past catches up to us. History is like that, always gobbling up the present.

At that moment, something incredible happened. Something amazing, something incredible, something unbelievable. Bastille smiled. It was a deep, knowing smile. An eager smile. Almost a wicked smile. Like the smile on a jack-o'-lantern carved by a psychopathic kitten. (Oh, wait. All kittens are psychopathic.

This , she thought, taking a deep breath, is going to be exceptionally embarrassing .

Cleverness never seems quite so impressive when regarded outside the moment

In seven days, God created the world. And in seven seconds, I shattered mine.

PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER "Now is the moment you've been waiting for. Some have been waiting their entire lives. It is time to put your dress together. It is time to prepare for the future." —Excerpted from Creating the Illusion by Madame Michel, Paris, 1954 Forty-Nine The bride

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

Moment by moment, maddened by them and melted by them, maddened/melted, maddened/melted, maddened/melted.

there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.

God is always active in our lives. He always calls, he always asks us to take up our crosses and follow him. But do we see, feel, and recognize God's call, or do we keep waiting for that illusory moment when it will really happen? Displacement is not primarily something to do or to accomplish but something to recognize.

Waiting patiently is suffering through the present moment, tasting it to the fullest in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

Just as a whole world of beauty can be discovered in one flower, so the great grace of God can be tasted in one small moment Just as no great travels are necessary to see the beauty of creation, so no great ecstasies are needed to discover the love of God.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.