Moments In Our Lives Quotes - Page 2

• There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Privilege, Moments

  Barack Obama's remarks on Egypt at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 11, 2011.

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• I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to be able to decide for themselves which aesthetics are closest to their own. Still, while I try not to be a nostalgist myself, I suppose I am drawn to those poignant moments in our lives, rendered clearly and artfully.

  David Starkey

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• The happiest moments in our life aren't "Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble." But it's when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money.

  Russell Brand

  Dream, Hats, Pockets

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.

  Paul Tournier

  Light, Knowing, Feelings

  Paul Tournier (1982). “Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?

  Andre Comte-Sponville

  Shadow, Fragility, Vanishing

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• So often the most meaningful moments in our lives are those that we share with our families. Treasured memories are created by celebrating, sharing and embracing the moments of life with the people we love.

  Sandra Magsamen

  Meaningful, Memories, People

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• God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

  Oswald Chambers

  Creating, Moments, Divine

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• At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Knowing, Want, Speak

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Hurt, Pain, Years

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• This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.

  Mahbod Seraji

  Drama, Thinking, Different

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.103, Penguin

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• I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Destiny, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.

  Jon Snow

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

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• I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

  Paullina Simons

  Stupidity, Moments, Eternity

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• That has been my personal relationship with God-a connection with the powerful, loving, wise energy in all of us, in all creation. It is the life force itself. We can all have contact with it each moment in our lives, but it takes commitment and practice. We must be willing to move through all our deepest fears, doubts, and misunderstandings.

  Shakti Gawain

  God, Wise, Powerful

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• Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

  Rob Bell

  Moments, Significant, Our Lives

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• We have taken a physical identity so that we may express our divine identity. And every moment in our life provides us with an opportunity to do that.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Taken, Opportunity, Identity

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