Quotes About Moment

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Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today.

And the last remaining pace between our lips were gone and i was falling headlong into her eyes, right there on Palo Verde after dinner. And I can tell you, that was no saint kissing me.

suddenly the sunlight was briefly snipped, as if a page had been turned in front of a lightbulb.

All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.

If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?

Our eyes kissed...

Chance waited patiently until she stopped.

It must be important. I tiptoe back outside.

It's better to live in the present, pumpkin. That's where the good stuff is.

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow. Maybe every moment occurs at once, and they will always be twenty-two, their lives always before them.

And it's a life with no shortage of moments to recommend it, a life that picks up speed like a boulder rolling down a hill, easy and natural and comfortable, and yet beyond control somehow; it all happens so fast, you wake a young man and at lunch are middle-aged and by dinner you can imagine your death.

And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast.

And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exciting part, the action? It's all so fast.

They must have stopped the world. They just must have.

Reality is not necessarily my friend—then again, neither are dreams—but this moment, this reality, is beautiful.

For a few brief moments, Matt got to hold Julie in his arms. And that gift? That would stay with him forever.

Those one hundred and eighty seconds with Esben somehow threw me into a whirlwind. Either I get slammed to the ground by that force or I soar.

What he did do was reach the driver's side door and throw a hand up in the air, punching the night sky twice. And under the fuzzy light from the moon, she could see him smile.

But then I remind myself that life is really just about one moment at a time. To not think about two years from now, but to think about right now. Two years from now will figure itself out.

To think that we will never again all be here together.

A final image: Udayan standing beside her on the balcony in North Calcutta. Looking down at the street with her, getting to know her. Leaning forward, just inches between them, the future spread before them. The moment her life had begun a second time.

He stops to wait for her, but she has a sudden burst of energy, passing him. On and on she sprints, unobstructed, kicking up her heels at the water's edge. Dark hair to her chin, rearranged by the wind, obscuring her face. Just when he thinks she will have the energy to run forever, to escape his sight, she pauses. Turning back, breathing hard, her hand on her hip, making sure he is there.