Moments quotes
3.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state."
"Either define the moment or the moment will define you."
"Life is all about moments. No one in history has ever been able to hold on to one."
"I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now"
"At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you."
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"Maybe this one moment, with this one person, is the very reason we’re here on Earth at this time."
"You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty."
"The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity."
"It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it."
"Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters."
"One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world"
"Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once."
"God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope."
"Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment."
"You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime"
"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."
"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment."
"When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment."
"Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment."
"Give yourself a gift: the present moment."
"There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me."
"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."
"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."
"There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless."
"All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment."
