Quotes About Moment

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

Remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present.

Be nothing. Be not the spider nor the man nor the future nor the past. Be the moment. Be nothing.

Over the last week, if there's anything I've learned, it's that you're only who you choose to be. Every moment. The past is gone. Memories are no more solid than dreams. The only real thing, the only true thing, is the present. That's it." -- "So the things we've done don't count?" "Of course they do. But we can decide how much. ?And we can decide what we want the present to be like. We can live it however we want.

Bobby was a hero, and so were Luisa and Val and all the rest of them. But it's only in movies that heroes get to count on the big moment of glorious sacrifice. Real life is messier than that.

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The problem with the best moment in your life is that every other moment is worse

Eric Seven does not believe in love at first sight. He corrects himself. Even in that moment, the moment that it happens, he fees his journalist's brain make a correction, rubbing out a long-held belief, writing a new one in its place. He did not believe in love at first sight. He thinks he might do so now.

I would like to be the airthat inhabits you for a momentonly. I would like to be that unnoticed& that necessary.

The union of two natures for a time is so great

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Not that it will be easy for you," Miryam continued. "But for the moment - look - it's a wonderful, mysterious thing to be a girl." And, looking at her reflection, Laura thought this might be true.

The cork had come out with a ghost of a pop; it was a beautiful sound, regretful, grateful, kind. "There

Jolly sensible of you. There always is a moment when one makes up one's mind about these things, and then it's much tidier to act at once.

He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

Inside the mountain, inside the train, one boy kisses the other, and the other kisses him back, and there is nothing but history between them, and history is enough to make a future.

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change in his feelings; his most virtuous resolves were always rather the effect of sudden impulse than of steady principle.

Happiness is sometimes an illusion. Real happiness lasts more than a moment...

You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?

Each moment is nightfall not spacious enough to contain all hope that there will be morning.

And [she] proceeded to insult ... anyone she happened to remember at the moment, with such power and originality that the soldiers listened in wonder to vituperation that transcended their wildest dream of profanity and filth.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

We stared at each other for a moment, then burst into laughter that must have scared off every nonhuman animal for half a mile around.