Moments Quotes - Page 75

Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.

The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.

If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

At some moments, you feel attracted to someone of the same sex, even if it's not sexual. You just want to be like him.

They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes.

I was the strongest during my career, and that helped me a lot, definitely in the beginning, when I needed to race against riders who were much older than me and had the power and the experience. I could beat them with my technique. At a certain moment I not only had the technique but then the power came and the experience, and then you are on the best level that you ever can reach. But then the explosivity starts to go down, you're more afraid, and the technique goes down a bit. But it's OK, because it never goes completely down.

Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved.

I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

I find that every day is not about where I'll be tomorrow, but it's about what I'm doing today and staying in the moment. By doing that, I'm truly enjoying all of my todays.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.

You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.