Quotes About Moment

We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.

The interwoven branches of the firs droop from the weight, bendable but not brittle. I want to be just as still and somehow pliable and permanent in each moment of being alive, to ponder how transient and yet how pregnant each instant feels.

In that slippery, sliding moment, his disappointment begins to heal. If the bus driver has appeared at this moment, this very day, then there is a reason. All he needs to discover is why. He'll take his time. He'll watch. Surely the reason will be revealed. Reasons usually do.

But life is lived at the moment you are living it, she thought. No one but God in heaven has the benefit of seeing beyond today.

even that we only have for a little while. Even the candle is not ours to keep. And yet how we care for that candle for that stretch of time that it is still ours! How we want to remember the shape and fragrance of the little

hills in the distance—beyond the tiny coastal city and the boats in the water that everyone in a hurry misses—represent all that is beyond the moment in time when the angel told the Virgin she would bear the Savior of the world. That is the vanishing point. Without it, there would be no sense that this moment is a slice of time.

But you can't get back the day you make a decision that changes everything.

we choose our actions at the moment when we must

Everything in my life suddenly shifted into focus. It was like time froze and I was given a dazzling moment to comprehend the difference between that moment and the one before it. No one made choices for me. I made them. If I took no risks in the choices I'd made, it was because I didn't have the courage to take them or didn't want to live with the consequences. I didn't want to risk disappointment myself. It had been safer to defer than to strike our on my own.

She felt shy, like a precious gift being gloatingly unwrapped, but she didn't resent his moment of purely masculine triumph. The glory of the moment was also hers, this beautiful man hers. He was giving himself to her and asking nothing but what she was willing to give in return.

It was as if, in this urgent moment, the people of Los Angeles formed a living library. They created, for that short time, a system to protect and pass along shared knowledge, to save what we know for each other, which is what libraries do every day.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground.

No matter where life takes you...the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find goodness in it.

Consistency- you can't buy it. It can only be created at the individual level in the moment, moment to moment through the law of compounding.

It was as if rather than being there in that moment, I was somewhere else, wishing I could be there. . . . The strange reverse-nostalgia itched at me every time I stepped from the boat to the stilt house dock, and it was several minutes before I could slough it off and relax. I think as much as anything else it was a weighty sense of gratitude, as well as the foreknowledge that whatever this was--this occupation, this friendship, this parallel life--it would not last forever.

He resisted for a moment, laughing, nudging aside my head with his hip, and then with a heavy sigh, as if I were leading him to his doom, he leaned back on the bed, elbows bent, and watched me.

and with a low moan he entered me with such ease, such presumption, that I began to come the moment he was inside of me.

It began to rain in that rushed and urgent way that it rains in New York.

I was thinking that everything had changed in an instant, changed in a way that neither he nor I might mind.

A lo largo de los cruces de tu camino te encuentras con otras vidas: conocerlas o no conocerlas, vivirlas a fondo o dejarlas correr es asunto que sólo depende de la elección que efectúas en un instante. Aunque no lo sepas, en pasar de largo o desviarte a menudo está en juego tu existencia, y la de quien está a tu lado.

Um,' he said, because she was smiling at him and he was an idiot.