Instant Quotes

• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Time, Illumination

  Diary entries, 1943.

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• Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Relationship, Kids, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• Existence begins in every instant.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Existence

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• The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Heart, Long, World

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.288, Aeterna Press

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• The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

  Madeline Tiger Bass

  Inspiring, Gratitude, Sweet

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• Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Doe, Life Is, Eternal

  "Kundalini Yoga: The Mysteries of the Fire: Ancient Secrets of Hinduism Revealed".

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• What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Photography, Art, Views

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  A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Photography, Brother, Photographer

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• The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.

  Lisa Mangum

  Rivers, Space, Mind

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• Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.

  Robin Lee

  Long, Grows, Long Time

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• I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Philosophical, Knowing

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.

  Jeffrey Rowland

  Reading, Positivity, Odds Against You

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• People may come and go,lives may change in a instant,but love and friendship will last forever.

  Elizabeth Sims

  People, Forever, Love And Friendship

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• There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

  Carolyn Porco

  Powerful, Ocean, Other Worlds

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  Laughter is an instant vacation.

  Milton Berle

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

  Steve Jobs

  Children, Sorry, Technology

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Life is so fast and it can change in an instant.

  Elaine Cassidy

  Life Is

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There is nothing like Integral Dreaming in the literature. This is an ambitious undertaking and its readers will gain an in-depth understanding of dreams and dreaming that they will find nowhere else. The ‘five movements’ of Integral Dream Practice will encourage many readers to follow the steps outlined, and integrate dreamwork into their own lives. This book will be an instant classic in the field.

  Stanley Krippner

  Dream, Book, Practice

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• One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.

  Wumen Huikai

  Eternity

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• The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Dream, Lying, Fate

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• The path of your life can change in an instant.

  Ann Brashares

  Path, Life Can Change In An Instant

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.46, Penguin

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• In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Buddhist, Truth, Life Changing

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• Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Perfect, Expectations, Effort

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

  Hal Boyle

  Summer, Memories, Spring

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