Moments Quotes - Page 19

• At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Patterns, Behavior, Insight

  Rupert Sheldrake (2012). “The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Comfort, Doe

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• When we believe in our child fully, we trust that they are doing the very best they can at every moment, given their age, past experience and present circumstances. It is this kind of trust that I mean when I talk about parenting being on their child's side. Having someone dependably 'on their side' is absolutely critical if a child is to grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. If we aren't on their side, who will be?

  Jan Hunt

  Children, Believe, Mean

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• Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken. Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its' the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it's almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can't take it. And at this moment you're a part of them. The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on. Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

  Joanne Woodward

  Sex, Real, Sleep

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• Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Powerful, Mean, Soul

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• Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Clever, Cheer Up, Kung Fu Panda

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• The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Real, Meditation Practice, Our Lives

  "Jon Kabat-Zinn: ‘The Real Meditation Practice Is How We Live Our Lives From Moment To Moment’" By Amanda L. Chan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.

  Ralph Marston

  Light, Shining, Joy

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• Where you are in life is exactly where you are supposed to be as a result of the things you have done up until that moment in time. To do anything else but accept your current situation would be crazy. The real thing to do is decide where you want to go, use both consistency and patience to get there and enjoy the ride. It is, after all, the path you have chosen in life.

  Martyn Rooney

  Crazy, Real, Consistency

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• I just got asked by another journalist 'Are you a feminist?' and I was just like... Is there a strange thing at the moment where you have to come out as a feminist? I've been asked if I'm a feminist so many times recently, and I'm just like 'Yes, yes, for God's sake, yes! Is there something that I give off that says I'm not?'

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Giving, Feminist, Sake

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• No, there's no University for Wizards. At the moment I'm only planning to write seven Harry Potter books. I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Potters

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• Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

  Simon Schama

  Essence, Progress, Particular

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• I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.

  Stephen Curry

  Butterfly, Thinking, Inspirational Basketball

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• The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Years, Worst Moments, Racism

  "Spam curry, chips - and our beautiful launderette". Interview with Vincent Graff, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2007.

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• If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite similar to everyone else.' At moments like that, I become very, very British. My accent gets more clipped, and I stride around as if I've got an empire.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  People, Feelings, Looks

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• A characteristic of the flesh is its fickleness: it alternates between Yes and No and vice versa. But the will of God is: "Walk not according to the flesh (not even for a moment) but according to the Spirit."

  Watchman Nee

  Vices, Yes And No, Flesh

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.45, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Bridges, Broken, Connections

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• That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Fusion, Essentials

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• I don't thrive on the concept of being naked at every possible moment, but it's not the biggest deal in the world to me.

  Sharon Stone

  Naked, World, Thrive

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• We are living in the blessing of that moment.

  Buddy Ebsen

  Blessing, That Moment

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• The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.

  Don DeLillo

  Loss, Thinking, Novelists

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• I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last.

  Jonathan Larson

  Past, Lasts

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• Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

  Bill Keller

  War, Simple, Israel

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• If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

  Patton Oswalt

  Reading, People, Trying

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.

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