Quotes About Moment

took out a cigarette and almost before I had it in my mouth, Robair struck a match and held it for me. I dragged deep. "That's all right, Robair. I don't think

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today

Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Now is all the time I have anything to do with," said Miss Ophelia.

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

For passion has come to the verge and leaps headlong to the blind abyss, yet gathers thereby the strength of deeps, and eddies a moment and swirls and sweeps till peril is one with bliss!

Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you're sure to be right.

Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but present. No one has ever lived in the past, and no one lives in the future, either.

The ecstasy of the moment will, I believe, lead the way to the terribly elusive clarity I seek.

You experience every moment as equal to the other, for the pure joy of it, like drinking a good wine or, as in the case of the Professor taking a good life. You treasure it the way the tree treasures Buddha, the way a cat prizes the mouse, the rose the sun. You perceive it and let it go, to be what it will.

And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.

every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed.

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.

She looked at him, his soft brown eyes and tall form, and contemplated raising herself on her toes and kissing his ear, or his cheek... Instead, impulsively before leaving, she reached up and smoothed his mussed hair. Mr. Bradford beamed.

One last dance, my lady, before I am never to see you again?

It's just a guess," said Bramble after a moment, "but I don't think he's in the mood to see us.

Actually, Jake said, isn't life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be - wherever it is that we are?

Angel, indeed. An angel sent from hell to torment his every waking moment and beyond.

Campfires and birthday candles don't burn forever.

These choices we make, they seem so small-- they're made in a split second and yet they can have a ripple effect for years.

We each receive guidance in whatever form we are most open to at any given moment.

For the moment's all there is, my darling.