That Moment Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

  Richard Bach

  Judging, Decision, Joy

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• The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind, with an attitude of regard...be alert for its openings, for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane, and you know the land knows you are there.

  Barry Lopez

  Attitude, Simple, Land

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• A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religious, Heart, Names

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Morning, Weather

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.187

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• I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of the koan, this one is not different from myself. I know this mountain because I am this mountain, I can feel it breathing at this moment, as its grass tops stray against the snows. If the snow leopard should leap from the rock above and manifest itself before me - S-A-A-O! - then in that moment of pure fright, out of my wits, I might truly perceive it, and be free.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Time, Nature, Rocks

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.89, Shambhala Publications

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• It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it 'Jumping the Shark.' From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same.

  Jon Hein

  Jumping, Sharks, Television

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• Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are far removed from the human condition and from all human hope. For a moment, in that moment, flowers are simply beautiful.

  Sharman Apt Russell

  Beautiful, Flower, Moments

  Sharman Apt Russell (2002). “Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers”, p.2, Basic Books

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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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• Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.

  Henry Ford

  Science, Thinking, America

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• When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Loss, Opinion

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.92

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• The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhist, Powerful, Teaching

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• He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own, this girl who had decided yes, a brief moment of release in the back of a car, in the room of a silent house, this girl who had stood up later, adjusting her clothes, with now knowledge of how that moment was already shaping her life.

  Kim Edwards

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.258, Penguin

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• Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even without a gate. You go on jumping from this to that. In the morning you may be in heaven; by evening you are in hell. This moment heaven, that moment hell. It is just an attitude, just a state of your mind, just how you are feeling. Many times, in a single life, you may visit hell, and many times you may visit heaven. In a single day also.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Attitude, Jumping

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• Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Water, Enlightenment

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.138, Penguin

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• It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

  Michael Weisskopf

  Integrity, War, Intellectual

  Michael Weisskopf (2016). “Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57”, p.188, Holt Paperbacks

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• At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

  Ernst Toller

  Brother, Men, Realization

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: An Autobiography”

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• That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

  Mary McDonnell

  Motivational, Thinking, Leader

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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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• 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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• The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

  Bergen Evans

  Men, Humanity, Religion

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• There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.

  E. T. Whittaker

  Supposing That, Atheism, Bangs

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• Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

  Paul Cezanne

  Passing By, Moments, Passings

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• I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

  Emma Watson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nice

  "10 Times Emma Watson Ruled At Life" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. November 19, 2014.

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• It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life Changing, Believe, Reality

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.134, Bantam

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