Moments Quotes

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Surrendering only refers to this moment, whatever "is" at this moment - to accept unconditionally and fully whatever arises at this moment.

Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

Sometimes I happen to be the right guy in the right spot at the right moment.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested in those moments.

Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.

I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.

We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.

As actors, we need a moment to take a breath and have a moment of slowness.

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.

We must love while these moments are still called today.

I've had a couple of pinch-me moments.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina Jolie.

When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?

There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

In Cuba they don't celebrate Halloween but my favorite moments have been trick-or-treating with my kids here in the U.S.: they really enjoy it.

I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.

When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.

When you're performing, you're creating a moment.