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• People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

  John Green

  Mistake, Cancer, Years

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.65, Penguin

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• The urge at that moment to reach across and touch Willow--to link his fingers through hers as she rested her hand on her thigh, or stroke her bright hair back from her temple--was almost overpowering. He crossed his arms over his chest. "Yep, definitely time for a coffee break," he said, closing his eyes. "You see right through me.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Coffee, Eye, Hair

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• I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

  Russell Crowe

  Heart, Eye, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lonely, Confused, Taken

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.172, Penguin

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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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• Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

  Alan Rickman

  Teacher, Children, Life Changing

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• Whenever you focus on the blessings in your life, you're instantaneously on the blessing frequency, and blessings increase in your life IN THAT MOMENT! 'I am truly blessed every day by every person, circumstance, and event, and I'm truly blessed to be sharing my life with all of you.' How are you blessed?

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Karma, Blessed

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• To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

  Andrew Solomon

  Opposites, Vitality, Moments

  "Faces of Depression: Andrew Solomon". PBS interview, www.pbs.org.

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• I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Beach, School, Boys

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• Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Yoga, Mean, Feelings

  "A New Earth". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

  Rob Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

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• It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moments, Rejects, Offers

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Moments, Interfere

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• Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suicide, Spiritual, Government

  Address at the Fiftieth Annual NAACP Convention, July 17, 1959.

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• Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Friendship, Inspiration

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal-a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Prayer, Children

  Dwight L. Moody (2017). “Secret Power: The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work”, p.75, Aneko Press

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• When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Spiritual, Sleep, Reality

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• Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid - after all, it's only a game - but it could enrich your life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Children, Stupid

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