Quotes about Moment

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you.

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death…. The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past…. The future is today…. There is no tomorrow. The day of man's salvation is now.

shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

My life had been characterized by emptiness the size of the Sahara but there, in that moment, in the back of that truck in the armpit of Nicaragua, I wondered—for the first time—if there wasn't a river flowing down deep inside me. If so, the water that would cleanse me was not water from my head—where I'd learned to rationalize my indifference. But water from my heart.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

It's always the first 10,000 SoundCloud listens; that was definitely a big moment, seeing the online stuff grow and crowds grow.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

Why is it that we look upon our salvation as a moment that began our religious life instead of the daily life we receive from God?