Instant Quotes

• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Time, Illumination

  Diary entries, 1943.

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• Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Relationship, Kids, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• Existence begins in every instant.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Existence

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• The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Heart, Long, World

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.288, Aeterna Press

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• The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

  Madeline Tiger Bass

  Inspiring, Gratitude, Sweet

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  A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Photography, Brother, Photographer

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• Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Doe, Life Is, Eternal

  "Kundalini Yoga: The Mysteries of the Fire: Ancient Secrets of Hinduism Revealed".

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• What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Photography, Art, Views

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• The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.

  Lisa Mangum

  Rivers, Space, Mind

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• Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.

  Robin Lee

  Long, Grows, Long Time

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• I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Philosophical, Knowing

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.

  Jeffrey Rowland

  Reading, Positivity, Odds Against You

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• I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great medium for that. It happens in an instant, but it gives you hours or days of time to reflect on things. It’s a beautiful system, this game of photography, to see in an instant and go back and think about later on. It’s pure philosophy. And poetry.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Beautiful, Photography, Philosophy

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• There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

  Jenna Jameson

  Light, Evil, Choices

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• Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Forever, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 08, 2014

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• Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Miracle

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.11, Harmony

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• Photography is about a single point of a moment. It’s like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Creating, Stopping

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• If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

  Mary Oliver

  Wise, Fighting, Love Is

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.68, Penguin

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• Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Creating

  Twitter post from Oct 26, 2016

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• Fashion is an instant language.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Language

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• The path of your life can change in an instant.

  Ann Brashares

  Path, Life Can Change In An Instant

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.46, Penguin

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• In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Buddhist, Truth, Life Changing

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• People may come and go,lives may change in a instant,but love and friendship will last forever.

  Elizabeth Sims

  People, Forever, Love And Friendship

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  Laughter is an instant vacation.

  Milton Berle

  Love, Family, Happiness

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