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But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing." Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

David Levithan

Feelings, Moments, Feels

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.

Evelyn Glennie

Holiday, People, Watches

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Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?

Sharon M. Draper

Blow, Moments, Enough

Sharon M. Draper (2006). “Tears of a Tiger”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Heart, Moments, Should

Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “The Remains of the Day”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

LeBron James

Morning, Father, Believe

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We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.

Robin Parrish

Moving, Magic, World

Robin Parrish (2007). “Relentless (Dominion Trilogy Book #1)”, p.199, Baker Books

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Oh that moment when Daniel thought he’d lost her to Cam’s starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he’d given up all hope.

Lauren Kate

Wings, Hats, Moments

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When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Philip Pullman

Choices, Doing Nothing, Way

Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

John Fowles

Acceptance, Self, Choices

John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at the still, silent liquid in the dark depths of the bowl, its colour hardly differing from that of the bowl itself. What lies within the darkness one cannot distinguish, but the palm senses the gentle movements of the liquid, vapour rises from within, forming droplets on the rim, and the fragrance carried upon the vapour brings a delicate anticipation ... a moment of mystery, it might almost be called, a moment of trance.

Junichiro Tanizaki

Lying, Dark, Mouths

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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Andy Grove

Missing You, Business, Next

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A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent my life focusing on hand to hand combat, learning to dodge fangs and powerful hands that could snap my neck. A gun? It was so… well, easy. Should I be insulted? I didn’t know. Did it matter? I didn’t know that either. All I knew in that moment was that I was going to die, regardless.

Richelle Mead

Powerful, Gun, Cheater

"Last Sacrifice". Book by Richelle Mead, December 7, 2010.

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It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

Lauren Oliver

Want Something, Waiting, Forever

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.29, Harper Collins

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I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my lips. But it was useless. In that moment, Jace was everywhere. He was in my mind, he was in my heart, and he was in my memory. He smelled good. He tasted good. And the blissful aftershock still throbbing in my most sensitive places felt wonderful, when everything else in my life was an obstacle to be overcome.

Rachel Vincent

Memories, Eye, Heart

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And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.

Lauren Oliver

Running, Pain, Joy

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium (Delirium Trilogy 1)”, p.296, Hachette UK

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If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.

Ai Yazawa

Dream, Stronger, Tears

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Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks... Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading. So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks... Lets us sparkle brightly, Always.

Tite Kubo

Moon, Shining, Fading

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I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

Justin Cronin

Girl, Eye, Purpose

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She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.

Lisa Kleypas

Eye, Gideon, Green

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When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it!

Joko Beck

Disappointment, Gossip, Greed

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There comes a time in every life when the past recedes and the future opens. It's that moment when you turn to face the unknown. Some will turn back to what they already know. Some will walk straight ahead into uncertainty. I can't tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun.

Phil Knight

Fun, Past, Faces

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She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.

John Crowley

Dream, Doors, Wings

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Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

Jennie Finch

Want, Moments

"How Jennie Finch Stays in Pro-Athlete Form". Interview with Jené Luciani, www.shape.com. March 14, 2012.

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

Robert Benchley

Funny, Work, Procrastination

Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

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Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

J. K. Rowling

People, Bed, World

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