The present moment is creative creating with an unheard-of intensity.
~ Le Corbusier
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
~ Storm Jameson
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
I live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.
~ Hugh Prather
But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
~ Sherwood Anderson
To finish the moment to find the journey's end in every step of the road to live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.
~ Samuel Butler
God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.
~ J. P. Decaussade
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
~ Johann Von Goethe
A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there doing that thing in the moment. ... He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.
~ John Brodie
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves unable to see that here now this very moment is sacred but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
~ Tennessee Williams
The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.
~ Ruth Benedict
Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment but if cooking is evanescent so is the ballet.
~ Julia Child
We have only this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
~ Marie Beynon Ray
It is privilege of living to be ... acutely agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
~ Marya Mannes
The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment all the while however exercising ourselves in goodness.
~ Saint Catherine Of Genoa
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
The moment of change is the only poem.
~ Adrienne Rich
If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done.
~ Anonymous
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
~ James Russell Lowell
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.
~ Monica Baldwin
Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.
~ Brigitte Bardot
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work fun of the most exhausting sort.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
~ Corita Kent
Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
