Quotes About Moment

The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

I sank into a c. and passed an agitated h. over the b.

I touched you and my life stopped

Hoy es hoy, y ayer se fue. No hay duda.

It's hard to tell if we close our eyes or if night opens in us other starred eyes, if it burrows into the wall of our dream till some other door opens. But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, is spent in one beat of the darkness, and falls at our feet, cast off as the day stirs and sails away with us. -from In the Tower

It's hard for anybody to put their finger on the moment when life changes from being something that is nearly all in front of you to something that happened while your attention was elsewhere.

Star regarded it for a moment and, with a sigh, sank into the bubbles.

Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.

But sometimes stories hide themselves from writers like trolls under bridges. Then the writers of the world must keep their bodies attuned for the sudden appearance of the story that is powerful enough to change their novels and their lives. They must train themselves to recognize the divine moment when a great story reveals itself.

we tensed for the moment of entry, the butterflies swarming in their familiar, nervous dance in our stomachs;

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

How strange to be in a dream one moment and in the world the next, and to know the difference in the blink of an eye.

Every moment is like a wheel with a hundred spokes in it. We ride always at the hub of the wheel and go forward as it turns. We ignore the array of other moments constantly turning around us. We are surrounded by doorways; we never open them.

walk. A German shepherd bounded around the corner of the house, barking and snarling. Angel started back to her car when she heard

I don't understand what has happened. But that is has happened—that I know. It is a framed moment, not a story, but something much smaller, a spark of meaning I will return to all my life. The DNA of identity. What, much later, I learn is a vignette, a photo frayed at the edges, its old silver frame stowed in the dark attic of the mind.

I'm going to enjoy what I've got as long as it lasts.

because neither of us will ever be any different from what we are this minute.

Carol only smiled at her, a little

This is when my business began to not only turn around; it began to take off.

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

we must accept the circumstances we constantly find ourselves in as the place of God's kingdom and blessing. God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right," we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life. For those situations and moments are our life.

Why is it that we look upon our salvation as a moment that began our religious life instead of the daily life we receive from God?

The life without lack is known by those who have learned how to trust God in the moment of their need.

then he's gone. She can hear him walking away up the passage. His footsteps sound hesitant, but he doesn't turn back. Nor will the moment return, which is true of all moments, though not equally.