Moments In Our Lives Quotes

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

Robert Henri

Reality, Expression, People

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There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

Robert Henri

Usual, Moments, Clairvoyant

Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

Francis Bacon

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll

Family, Friday, Mother

"Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

Douglas Coupland

Two, Interesting, Three

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The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable

Vince Lombardi

Memories, Inspiration, Overcoming

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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

Marcel Marceau

Love, Dream, Moving

"Farewell, Marceau: the mime's best performances" by Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2007.

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Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Procrastination, Knowing

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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Yoko Ono

Miracle, Life Is, Moments

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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Life, Family

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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Erma Bombeck

Funny Inspirational, Children, Parenting

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I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

Sebastian Faulks

Years, May, Months

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Each of us face a moment in our lives called 'the breakdown moment.' This is the time when you must stand toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball, with the very thing you have tried desperately to avoid. In that moment, when there is nothing standing between you and the thing you fear the most, you will be forced to step into your greatness, because that is what life is demanding of you.

Iyanla Vanzant

Greatness, Faces, Toes

FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 08, 2014

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The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to it's limited in voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Effort, Mind, Body

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When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives.

Federico Fellini

Important, Busy, Moments

Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler (2001). “I, Fellini”, p.37, Cooper Square Press

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We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

Tom Spanbauer

Brave, Lovely, Body

Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.500, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—

Jorie Graham

Giving, Heaven, Moments

Jorie Graham (1996). “The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994”, Carcanet Press Limited

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There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

Howard Schultz

Wise, Believe, Bystanders

Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.7, Rodale

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There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

Dirk Benedict

Forever, Moments, Divine

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We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.

Howard Zinn

Responsibility, Simple, Years

"Changing Minds, One at a Time" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. May 10, 2005.

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Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.

Sena Jeter Naslund

Meaningful, Connections, Gaps

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[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.

Jean Vanier

Who We Are, Moments, Our Lives

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At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?

Sogyal Rinpoche

Death, Karma, Compassion

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There is a divine moment in our lives when we become One. It is called pro-creation and it is reborn continually and forever in the future we call children. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents... we fail as God's Children.

Dirk Benedict

Children, Destiny, Parent

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Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed.

Christopher Alexander

Lying, Knowledge, Men

Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.52, New York : Oxford University Press

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