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Plinius Gaius:
  • No mortal man is wise at all moments.

    • Horace:
  • Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

    • Rene Crevel:
  • Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves

    • Omar Khayyam:
  • Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

    • Vonnegut:
  • Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why

    • Cecilia Meireles:
  • I sing because the moment exists

    • Thornton Wilder:
  • We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

    • Schweitzer:
  • Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everythin happens for a reason.

    • Mitropoulos:
  • I only live for the moments I am in the podium and in order to live those moments, I spend my life preparing myself with discipline, doubts and humility.

    • Nino Rota:
  • I do what I can to give everyone a moment of happiness. This is at the heart of my music.

    • Norman Mailer:
  • Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

    • Buddha:
  • The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

    • John Updike:
  • Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

    • Montessori:
  • At some given moment it happens that the child becomes deeply interested in a piece of work; we see it in the expression on his face, his intense concentration, the devotion to the exercise.

    • Remarque:
  • Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

    • Goethe:
  • Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.

    • Pittacus:
  • Know the right moment.

    • Thomas Eliot:
  • We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

    • Flaubert:
  • The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

    • Stefan Zweig:
  • In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

    • John Updike:
  • We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

    • Andre Breton:
  • No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

    • Krishnamurti:
  • There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

    • Yourcenar:
  • “He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

    • Baudelaire:
  • There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

    • Sylvia Plath:
  • It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

    • Igor Stravinsky:
  • My childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.

    • Marcel Proust:
  • It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

    • Hawthorne:
  • We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

    • Stefan Zweig:
  • In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

    • Leonard Cohen:
  • This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'

    • Robert Frost:
  • The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

    • Paul Valery:
  • to live means to lack something at every moment.

    • Boris Pasternak:
  • When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

    • Guevara Che:
  • I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.

    • Carl Sandburg:
  • Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

    • Jim Morrison:
  • I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

    • Dostoevsky:
  • I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

    • John Updike:
  • What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine

    • Alexandre Dumas:
  • Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

    • Borges:
  • “I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”

    • Raymond Queneau:
  • There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

    • Buddha:
  • Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

    • Walt Whitman:
  • Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

    • Sartre:
  • Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

    • Horace:
  • Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.(Subdue your passion or it will subdue you).

    • Jane Austen:
  • A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

    • Plutarch:
  • “The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.”

    • Andre Malraux:
  • “I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life that brings it- when one meets death face to face."

    • Gabriel Marquez:
  • It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

    • Durant Will:
  • It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment.

    • Balzac:
  • “Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”

    • Octavio Paz:
  • Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

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