Brief Moments Quotes

• You've been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its size, shape, color, or any imagined infirmities, you can honor the temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs, and treating it with dignity and love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Exercise, Color, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 15, 2015

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• There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record

  Yousuf Karsh

  Attitude, Eye, Men

  Yousuf Karsh (1962). “In Search of Greatness: Reflections of Yousuf Karsh”, University of Toronto Press

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• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  Michael Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Sports

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• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Death, Dream

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• Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Change, Philosophy, Medicine

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• You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Children, Patriotic

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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• When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

  Anna Pavlova

  Love, Children, Butterfly

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• When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Moments, Courses

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• Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime.

  Lisa Williams

  People, Moments, Lifetime

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• When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Children, Butterfly

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• Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

  Harlan Ellison

  Memories, Wind, Names

  "Paladin of the Lost Hour". Novelette by Harlan Ellison, 1985.

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• He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crush, Running, Dog

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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• But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Night, Two, Long

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1955). “Poems from Iqbal”, London : Murray. [1955]

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• Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Sun, Moments, Celebrate

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• There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

  Candace Bushnell

  Happy, Memories, Firsts

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• A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Depressing, Humble, Self

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• Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Reality, Depth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.385, Library of America

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• Sundown- When the sun must make peace with the moon and for a few brief moments, the two touch in mutual friendship and respect. Perfect balance between the light and dark. A time for reflection and for preparation.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Reflection, Moon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation
  on which alone my happiness rests.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Jesus, Men, Names

  "Goethe: Five Studies". Book by Albert Schweizer, p. 53, 1961.

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• God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Long, Giving, Moments

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• And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?

  Og Mandino

  Sadness, Joy, Together

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw...safety

  Richelle Mead

  Safety, Feelings, Saws

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.88, Penguin

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• All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Focus, Effort

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• I just think to be in that place, to be surrounded as I will and for my brief moment in the inauguration ceremony by my wife and by my children and my daughter-in-law, with family looking on from behind us in the platform and many Hoosiers coming to be out in the crowds, I expect - it's again, it will be very, very humbling.

  Mike Pence

  Daughter, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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