"There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy."
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"I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends."
"If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else."
"I feel like you only need one moment of inspiration to turn your life around."
"There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time."
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
"Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience."
"Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke"
"When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love."
"It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for."
"Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant."
"This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted."
"Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy."
"Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem."
"Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'"
"Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment."
"Every moment in life is an act of faith"
"As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . ."
"Spare the rod and spoil the child."
"At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were."