Quotes About Moment

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.

That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time.

Space permeates everything, every moment of our lives.

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom. It's available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.

Everything in your life - every moment, every struggle - is the path. Everything is an opportunity for awakening.

The choices you make are creating your next moment, your next hour, your next day, your next month, your next year. Your whole lifetime is being determined moment by moment by the choices you make.

The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.

seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self-contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. it doesn't have any fresh air. there's no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. we are killing the moment by controlling our experience.

En ese momento se dio la vuelta, como movida por una ráfaga de viento.

He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.

At the time, fatal steps are seldom recognised as such. There had been, for so long, the presumption that at any moment something would crop up to provoke change.

In life there is nothing more than life, in death nothing more than death: we are being born and dying at every moment.

He saw the sunlight leave the grass like an eye suddenly closed.

We are alive on the very brink of eternity.

Our own slice of time is only ever betwixt and between.

Nancy took her tiny little baby and held him down toward Norton. Look Norton, she said, This is a baby. Norton looked up at Charlie, took him in, and sort of nodded as if assimilating the information. There was a very long pause, and then I heard Nancy gulp. You've finally done it, she said to me. What? I wanted to know. Most mothers would have said, 'Look, Charlie, this is a cat.' I started to laugh. Not with Norton, I said.

En este momento, Keuschnig sintió vergüenza de morir y estar muerto. Era tan extravagante respirar por última vez y ser un cadáver.

We did not collect many souvenirs, for our own skin was the best souvenir we could think of that day.34 Signaller Ron Buckell, 1st Canadian Artillery Brigade, CEF