Top 100 Moment To Moment Quotes
#1. Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.
Pema Chodron
#2. It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.
Lorraine Bracco
#3. Cardiac depression is very powerful; it's very black; it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing - it was difficult at first - to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.
Robby Benson
#4. Optimal sculpting of key neural networks through healthy early relationships allows us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate our emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize our intellectual and emotional intelligence in moment-to-moment
Louis Cozolino
#5. Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#6. So often, we want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention. But we need to leave enough space in our days to get up from our prayers and actually look for God in the moment-to-moment things that happen.
Lysa TerKeurst
#7. Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#8. Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#9. In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.
Richard K. Morgan
#10. He felt ugly, loathsome, unfit to live, existing from moment to moment like an addict. He gravitated to the crippled, the diseased, the bohemian, and the downtrodden when he wanted an evening of conversation, just a little cerebral companionship.
Anne Rice
#11. She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will.
Ian McEwan
#12. Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."
We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.
Lewis Mumford
#13. The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
Pema Chodron
#15. It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it.
George Orwell
#16. Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.
Frederick Lenz
#17. The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.
Layman Pang
#18. I had so much going on in my heart, and it didn't often go together or make sense or even stay the same from moment to moment. How did I speak from a heart that didn't undersand itself?
Jennifer Brown
#19. Like all parents, they were just doing their best from moment to moment.
Deborah Harkness
#20. There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too high, and you cannot - then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is moment-to-moment victory.
Rajneesh
#21. The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.
Miranda July
#22. Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#23. After coming out as gay, I soon felt a lot more comfortable in my life, moment to moment.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#24. Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#25. When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary, day-to-day existence, when moment to moment you live totally, intensely, passionately, then God is available.
Rajneesh
#27. I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn't know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost.
Diana Gabaldon
#28. It's not just about recognizing how 'precious' every moment is, or about 'living for today.' It's about finding the sacred center of now, and living there, moment to moment, always.
Kathryn E. Livingston
#29. It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#30. The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.
Rajneesh
#31. You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.
Julian Baggini
#32. Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness.
Richard Davidson
#33. Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
Aldous Huxley
#34. The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.
Barbara Feldon
#35. Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#37. Laughter! I remember laughter. I did laughter a lot, he thought. These colours spinning around them are matching their mirth, changing from moment to moment, flaring out as they run and throw and catch. There are silver joy-waves rippling about them
Esme Ellis
#38. Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#39. Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.
Rupert Spira
#40. The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions, so it can be really receptive.
Samael Aun Weor
#41. When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
Bodhidharma
#42. We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.
Catherine Of Genoa
#43. Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
Barbara Brennan
#44. No longer was she living moment to moment in a hyper-vigilant state, she was reminded of more primal needs. She was a female in the arms of a very potent male.
Lisa Carlisle
#45. The urge toward action, i.e., improvement of the conditions of life, is inborn in man. Man himself changes from moment to moment and his valuations, volitions, and acts change with him. In the realm of action there is nothing perpetual but change. There
Ludwig Von Mises
#46. The moment is freedom. - I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
Bruce Lee
#47. If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.
Bruno Bettelheim
#48. There is now little question that how one uses one's attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes. Our minds - and lives - are largely shaped by how we use them.
Sam Harris
#49. Since your outcomes are all a result of your moment-to-moment choices, you have incredible power to change your life by changing those choices. Step by step, day by day, your choices will shape your actions until they become habits, where practice makes them permanent.
Darren Hardy
#50. To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.
Ayya Khema
#51. If you look at Hollywood today, compared to five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the change from moment to moment has always been extraordinary. It never stops moving.
Joseph McGinty Nichol
#52. There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#53. In existence; you are matter, form or body,
Living from moment to moment in self-consciousness.
When you become formless in pure consciousness;
You dissolve into that absolute presence.
Gian Kumar
#54. If I've learned anything - anything - getting older, it's the value of moment-to-moment enjoyment.
Judd Apatow
#55. What I want to say here is that there is a place beyond control and beyond concern that people can go, where the values and the needs of everyday life change completely. Where what matters is moment-to-moment survival to avoid mind pain.
Dan Fante
#56. That's essentially what Zen practice is about: functioning from moment to moment.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#57. I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.
Timothy Olyphant
#58. True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.
Francis Schaeffer
#59. Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.
Jeff Daniels
#60. The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#61. It is only the ego that steps from moment to moment, as a man who walks from puddle to puddle. It is only the ego who drowns in time.
Jane Roberts
#62. If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
Anthony De Mello
#63. To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment to moment in affection. Without affection, every action becomes burdensome and mechanical and leads to decay.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#64. So it can be particularly helpful to keep in mind from moment to moment that it is not so much the stressors in our lives but how we see them and what we do with them, how we are in relationship to them, that determines how much we are at their mercy.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#65. I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that's as out there as alien life.
Tracy K. Smith
#66. Rethink Your Mindset because ... The view your brain builds and automatically adopts ... of yourself, profoundly affects the way you think, feel and act-moment to moment, and the results you create.
Tony Dovale
#67. Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.
Bruce Lee
#68. Just because you decide to still your body and observe your breath from moment to moment doesn't mean that your thinking mind is going to cooperate.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#69. Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.
Guy Finley
#70. Life is not a static phenomenon. It is a flux, a riverlike flux; it needs constant change. It needs moment-to-moment awareness; otherwise you will be left behind.
Osho
#71. The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience.
Tara Brach
#72. I want to sleep. To find a safe place somewhere, and close my eyes, and rest, like an animal.
That is what I am. An animal. Living from moment to moment, day to day, trying to make sense of the world in which I find myself.
S.J. Watson
#73. Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going to happen from moment to moment in the book. She herself was amazed at what she was writing.
Sophy Burnham
#75. I feel like a very efficient tool or weapon, used and in demand from moment to moment ...
Sylvia Plath
#76. Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.
Sharon Weil
#77. All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.
Tobin Bell
#78. There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.
Adi Da
#79. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.
Anonymous
#80. This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.
Osho
#81. The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#82. Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.
Guy Finley
#83. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would be allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves.
Margaret Atwood
#84. Clearly, one of the great tasks of civilization is to create cultural mechanisms that protect us from the moment-to-moment failures of our ethical intuitions.
Sam Harris
#85. Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment.
Bruce Lee
#86. The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#87. David O. Russell's best films are thrilling high wire acts that run the moment to moment risk of tumbling to the ground. In his latest, "Joy," Russell has more trouble than usual keeping his balance on the wire.
David O. Russell
#88. Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not. If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk. There's no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.
Frederick Lenz
#89. I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, at least I'm playing the truth of the moment-to-moment reality.
Ving Rhames
#90. The only sure path is to live consciously, moment to moment, as you let go of the outcome.
Charlotte Kasl
#91. Most dancers I know, especially the talented and successful ones, seem to possess [my dog's] knack for living moment to moment. You see, their idea of time is related to those infinitely short moments when they are onstage being their superselves.
Paul Taylor
#92. Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be.
Peter London
#93. Tracking is a simple exercise. It works because it brings moment-to-moment awareness to the actions you take in the area of your life you want to improve
Darren Hardy
#94. The quality of your moment-to-moment experience determines the quality of your whole life, because ultimately they are the same thing.
David Cain
#95. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#96. The problem is that most of us are so caught up in our moment-to-moment activities, we don't stop to ask ourselves, Where is this all going? How is it going to end if I stick to this same path? Play
Michael Hyatt
#97. Our health - and indeed our entire lives - can be seen as the sum of all our moment-to-moment decisions. This includes how we choose to eat and drink, think and feel, act and react, and move and rest on any given day.
Kelly A. Turner
#98. The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide of darkness seemed to sweep him back to her, postponing from moment to moment his entry into the world of guilt and sorr.
Flannery O'Connor
#99. Life is but a moment to moment heartbeat intertwined with the feelings of existence in a physical body. With each breathe we take we renew our commitment to stay in life. With each thought we think ... ... ... we decide what kind of life we will live.
L.G. Space
#100. These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
Viktor E. Frankl
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