Quotes About Moment

But our here and now is just a blip along the continuum.

All life is an emergency.

Time matters most when decisions are irreversible.

Live large, because there are no extra days. -Tilt Family Motto

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come," said Victor Hugo

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future. To 'rest in the present' is a state of magical simplicity.

For people who must live from day to day, past and future have small relevance, and their grasp of it is fleeting; they live in the moment, a very precious gift that we have lost.

in the wild joy of bursting forth, the rushing to welcome every moment of his life...

Nen is mindfulness, attention to the present with a quality of vibrant awareness, as if this present moment were one's last.

Jim Reston: And of course when that moment came--no words came to my mouth, and I shook his hand. Because if you've spent that long hating a man--in the end--a kind of relationship develops. An intimacy. Biographer and subject. Assassin and target.

Is better to get an instant life, Instead of just there for life

To ensure that we don't merely exist in the dead present? ... That the oblivion of the now as opposed to the ecstasy of looking back--but wait, wait, if the present is the past, you fool, dissolving this very moment--then it is incumbent upon us now, now, to create the past--so obvious! so rudimentary!--it's the uncreated past that is dead [Walt Kaplan/August, Bedroom]

Of course, old man, I only saw the kid once, and then only for a moment, but - but it was an ugly sort of kid, wasn't it, if I remember rightly?' 'As ugly as that? ' I looked again, and honesty compelled me to be frank. 'I don't see how it could have been, old chap.

TRUSTING THE MOMENT Most of us spend the bulk of our time caught up in thoughts of the past or the future—which can be dangerous if your job is winning basketball games. Basketball takes place at such a lightning pace that it's easy to make mistakes and get obsessed with what just happened or what might happen next, which distracts you from the only thing that really matters—this very moment.

You're only a success at the moment you perform a successful act.

Forget mistakes, forget failures, forget everything, except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. WILL DURANT

The past is over, the future hasn't happened yet, the only time is right now. This can be your threshold moment of change. The next year of your life is going to go by whether you're doing something about your weight or not. Now

I appreciate life so much after I see people die. It is always just such a reminder that every moment -- this is all we have. This is it. I don't know if there is anything before or after, but this is what we do know. This is it. There are no guarantees for anything else. So we have to always, always appreciate.

Random, and yet rooted in the moment in which he lived, in which his life was bound up with all other lives and particles in the universe.

How long that part of the cycle had lasted he did not now know; nothing had happened, generally, so it had been measureless.

Death at each moment, one avenue which is open to us at any point.

Lo más que puedo pensar en hacer, lo más que puedo hacer en este momento, sería darte un beso. Tal vez en la mejilla, si te parece bien.

I once saw a ballgame.

The moment of separation is a temporary period, a brief journey of the soul. It begins, it ends. The wanderer returns to land and race.…