Quotes About Moment

Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory.

Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory. — Patti Smith, M Train (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

From my small terrace I caught the moment when drapes of cloud dropped upon the ground. I had never seen such a thing and lamented I was without film for my camera. On the other hand I was able to experience the moment completely unburdened.

It's our decade, he said.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It was. It will never be again. Remember.

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it.

Pity is such an awful, useless emotion- you have to bottle it up and keep it to yourself.The moment you try to express it, it only makes things worse.

Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be explained anymore, at some instant of experience that defies all sense. To be reduced to saying nothing. Or else, to say himself: this is what haunts me. And then to realize, almost in the same breath, that this is what he haunts.

The best thing about being fifteen is that you don't have to be fifteen for more than a year.

Si hubiera sido capaz de sonreír, habría sonreído en aquel momento

No importa -decía-. Un hombre debe vivir el presente y ¿qué importa quién eres la semana pasada, si sabes quién eres hoy?

He finds a fresh sheet of paper. He lays it out on the table before him and writes these words with his pen. It was. It will never be again. Remember.

the closest man can come to the feeling of eternity is by living in the present

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Cuanto más cerca estás del final, más tienes que decir. El final es sólo imaginario, un destino que te inventas para seguir andando, pero llega un momento en que adviertes que nunca llegarás allí. Es probable que tengas que detenerte, pero será sólo porque te ha faltado tiempo. Te detienes, pero eso no quiere decir que hayas llegado al fin.

Rather than allowing the safety and familiarity of forms to permit our hearts to disengage, or allowing a hip beat or guitar rift to generate superficial emotion, it is imperative that our walk with God remain real, that our dialogue with his Spirit be moment to moment, that our communication of his truth be accurate, engaging, and authentic.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Although it comes only for a few minutes in most cases, its bloom endures and

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate… give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

And Scripture is clear—this is not paradise, and it won't be. Rather, this moment is a time of preparation for the paradise that is to come, where everything that sin has broken will be fully restored to what God originally intended it to be.

You have only two choices: an "on earth" way of thinking that is all about this right here, right now physical moment, or an "above" way of thinking that looks at life from the vantage point of the grand redemptive story and, more specifically, from the perspective of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

If eternity is the plan, then it makes no sense to shrink your living down to the needs and wants of this little moment.