Quotes on Moments

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

One can learn to focus on "opportunity" as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively.

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government...There were such soldiers at Manassas and they are probably there still.

The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

Perhaps that is what life is all about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.