Moments Quotes - Page 71

Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then June came along.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home.

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

The moment of a miracle is unending lightning.

I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Walsall have given City more than one anxious moment amongst many anxious moments

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.

The love you seek is seeking you at this moment.

Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, Where is all the money going to come from? And he replied without hesitation, From wherever it is at the moment.

Be kind to yourself and others. Come from love every moment you can.

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.