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Quotes About Moment

The present is the blocks with which we build.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The present is all you have for your certain possession.
~ Anonymous
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.
~ H. L. Mencken
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
~ D. H. Lawrence
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
~ Plutarch
The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks.
~ Arthur Miller
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
~ Andre Gide
J. C. F. von Schiller
~ Let us live today.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.
~ Carl Sandburg
Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.
~ Anonymous
Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.
~ Wayne Dyer
When we have a world of only now, with no shadows of yesterdays or clouds of tomorrow, then saying what we can do will work.
~ Goldie Ivener
The present is the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
~ James Joyce
And if not now, when?
~ Talmud
When shall we live if not now?
~ M. F. K. Fisher
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
~ Hugh Prather
We are always beginning to live, but are never living.
~ Manilius
Don't let it be forgot, That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.
~ John F. Kennedy
The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.
~ Joanna Baillie
I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?
~ George R. Gissing