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• It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia.

  Ian Mcewan

  Two, Littles, Might

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• Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Inspiration, Listening, Ears

  Press conference after GMA Music Awards, 2007.

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• Meditation plays a big role in my life. Meditation fortifies my spirit, improves my focus, my desire. When I fight I try to empty my mind. It's called Mushin. When I don't see anything around me, I only see that moment. Nothing else matters. that was how I was taught to live.

  Lyoto Machida

  Fighting, Play, Mma

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• It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.

  Sandy Koufax

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Believe, Sometimes, Moments

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

  Kevin Powers

  Men, Choices, Illusion

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• When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mean, Green Fields, Light

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.207, Macmillan

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• At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Thinking, Parent, Moments

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.225, A&C Black

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• I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

  Jack White

  Attitude, Struggle, Guitar

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.

  Maya Angelou

  New York, Children, Home

  "Interview: How Libraries Changed Maya Angelou’s Life". Interview with Angela Montefinise, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Greatness, Special

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• If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

  Deval Patrick

  Moving, Want, Moments

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• I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

  Jessica Lynch

  Moments, Terrible, Standing

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• I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.

  Albert Oehlen

  Art, Mean, Oil

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2009.

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• Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

  Stephen Levine

  Positive Thinking, Roots, Mind

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• Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

  Jacques Charles

  Airplane, Calumny Is, Perfect

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• I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

  Bela Karolyi

  Success, Sports, Lying

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• I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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  I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Rights, Organization

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.416, Penguin

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• When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at that time, I implored God, for the sake of all these Holy Masses, to have mercy on the world and especially on poor sinners who were dying at that moment. At the same instant, I received an interior answer from God that a thousand souls had received grace through the prayerful mediation I had offered to God. We do not know the number of souls that is ours to save through our prayers and sacrifices; therefore, let us always pray for sinners.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Numbers

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• I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're already there. Can't get any better. And as players, if you ever have that moment - you should never have that moment. You're always trying to get better.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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• A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Teacher, Father, Real

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• And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Love You, Love Is, Giving

  Ann Rinaldi (2011). “Time Enough for Drums”, p.125, Laurel Leaf

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• If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Oneness, Irritation

  Hugh Prather (2017). “The Little Book of Letting Go: Cleanse your Mind, Lift your Spirit, and Replenish your Soul”, p.20, Conari Press

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