Moments Quotes - Page 66

True brokenness is a lifestyle - a moment-by-moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life - not as everyone else thinks it is but as He knows it to be.

Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment

You learn to handle the big moments in life by practicing on the little ones.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

Take advantage and control the moment. Don't let the moment take control of you.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

Choose who you are in any given moment.

People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.

Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.

God is holding you in His heart, right at this very moment. It's a fact that can make you feel so small yet so big at the same time.

You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"

The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.

Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.