I was born and lived for goodness and love. I was killed by the hatred of the elders just at the moment of their smallness.
One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
He who has felt that Face of beauty,
Which wakes the world’s great hymn,
For one unutterable moment
Bent in love o’er him,
In that look finds earth, heaven, men and angels
Grow nearer through Him.
—Amy Carmichael
Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’
—Marcus Aurelius
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
—Charles Dickens
One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
“Shall I not, from the very housetops, shout again and again, —
There is life for a look at the Crucified One;
There is life at this moment for thee?”
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
—Plato
Learn the importance of every moment, which just appears, and is gone for ever!
—John Wesley
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
—George Washington
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
—Henry David Thoreau
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
—Georg Hegel
If I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the people of our century, I would simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
—Leo Tolstoy
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
—Plato
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
—Aristotle
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
—Charlie Chaplin
He who has felt that Face of beauty,
Which wakes the world’s great hymn,
For one unutterable moment
Bent in love o’er him,
In that look finds earth, heaven, men and angels
Grow nearer through Him.
—Amy Carmichael
Learn to pray inwardly every moment. After a while you can do this even while you work.
—AW Tozer
Jesus walked forth, alive!
I believe that so completely that I believe it all the time. This is not an Easter “thing” that I try to believe once a year. I believe it so fully & so completely that it is a part of my being, every moment of every day.
—AW Tozer
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
—Marcus Aurelius
Time cannot exist in and by itself. God by his eternal power sustains time, both in its entirety and in each separate moment of it.
—Herman Bavinck
I think there can be no doubt that the need above all other needs in the Church of God at this moment is the power of the Holy Spirit. More education, better organization, finer equipment, more advanced methods—all are unavailing.
—AW Tozer
God pervades time and every moment of time with his eternity. In every second throbs the heartbeat of eternity.
—Herman Bavinck
God pervades time and every moment of time with his eternity; he maintains a definite relation to time, entering into it with his eternity. Between eternity and time there is a distinction not only in quantity and degree but also in quality and essence.
—Herman Bavinck