Moments Quotes
Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.
A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.
I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma
And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.
A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.
A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.
One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity or some energy or some mystery.
He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.
Keep your eyes out for # magical moments, they're everywhere! Live with passion today and everyday!
All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.
I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.
We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.
The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.
Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.
There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.
There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.
To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’
I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I know how fast it goes.
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another
If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.
My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.
I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.