"I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen."
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"Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace."
"My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg."
"I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology."
"The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being."
"It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever."
"Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments."
"The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment."
"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not."
"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
"There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes."
"A moment of choice is a moment of truth."
"It's more about capturing an idea than about capturing a moment."
"And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him."
"I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all."
"What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing."
"If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love."
"The moment you accept that there's a guidance system supporting you, then you experience a new sense of freedom and peace."
"Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time."
"The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom."