Quotes About Moment

It must be the nowness of this disease that, in stealing the past and obscuring the future, forces us, the healthy and the ill, to stay in the moment.

And that was freaky to think about, how life could go from wonderful to terrible in the blink of an eye.

In galactic terms, four years is but a nano-second.

His knuckles slid down, grazing my cheek.

There it was again, the prickling sense of standing on a precipice.

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

Maybe you can afford to wait… but for some of us, there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

one individual they did not want to encounter at that moment.

the sailors had a moment before reporting for duty, they might relieve themselves, an unpleasant, even ridiculous chore

Here is a big occult secret: Time flows in both directions at once! In other words, we are not only being carried along into the future on an ocean wave of time, but the future is at this very moment flowing toward us! The point where we meet head-on is the present.

We have all unknowingly entered into agreements or soul contracts in the spirit world which direct our behavior in the present moment.

Often it is through a process of emptying the mind that transformation can occur. Ironically, the most powerful changes in our life can be triggered by a moment of emptiness.

There are other ways to create this 'moment of emptiness' besides having to 'hit bottom.' One method would be to perform physical exercise till a state of exhaustion is achieved. Another technique is through sexual stimulation to the point of orgasm, when the mind suddenly goes blank, and we experience what the French call the 'petit mort,' or little death.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life

Now or never was the time.

I'm learning that I have to practice forgiveness, and sometimes it feels as if I have to do it moment by moment. Whenever the trigger gets pulled or the cloud of shame descends, I'm learning to see it as an invitation to forgive. My negative reaction means I'm aware of my lack of releasing my grudge or pain against them. It also means I can learn to let go of the hurts they caused.

He knew he could worm his way beneath her defenses—he'd read every word of those diaries. He knew the one absolute way to fulfill her every dream. The problem was, could he do that to her? He didn't have to. He could turn about this moment and ride away. Yet that would mean leaving her forever.

parking lot.

But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it's like to be different.

When a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.

When, a long, long time later, he stares down at the silent blue marble of the earth and thinks of his sister, as he will at every important moment of his life. He doesn't know this yet, but he senses it deep down in his core. So much will happen, he thinks, that I would want to tell you.

She looked at him fiercely, almost a glare, and Moody saw that her eyes, which he'd thought were hazel, were a deep jade green. At that moment Moody had a sudden clear understanding of what had already happened that morning: his life had been divided into a before and an after, and he would always be comparing the two.

At that moment Moody had a sudden clear understanding of what had already happened that morning: his life had been divided into a before and an after, and he would always be comparing the two.