Us Moment Quotes

#1. Time is a very precious gift-
so precious that it is only given to
us moment by moment.

Amelia Barr

#2. For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

Michael Stipe

#3. Sighing, Irene said, Why is it that we can love so much that which only makes us cry?
Susannah thought for only a moment, and then, with certainty, she said: Because it is that which calls us home to the heart.

Alice Walker

#4. Keystone habits transform us by creating cultures that make clear the values that, in the heat of a difficult decision or a moment of uncertainty, we might otherwise forget.

Charles Duhigg

#5. God wills that we should push on into His Presence and live our whole life there. This is to be known to us in conscious experience. It is more than a doctrine to be held, it is a life to be enjoyed every moment of every day.

A.W. Tozer

#6. She relaxed, fitting perfectly into my body. In the crisp, cold February air, we swayed together, moving to our own personal beat. For one moment, we escaped hell. No teachers, no therapist, no well-meaning friends, no nightmares-just the two of us, dancing.

Katie McGarry

#7. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees.

Annie Dillard

#8. Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

Katherine Paterson

#9. There is a moment before we are fully awake when truths known only to our unconscious mind brush over us like a mother's kiss. These truths represent our dreams - our naked hopes that will go unrealized unless fate smiles, or the angels intervene, or a woman reaches for a man.

Rebecca E. Grant

#10. he had kidded with us that if we didn't let go at the proper moment, he would slap our hands with a stick, and we had all laughed because who would be silly enough to hang on when they should let go?

Dee Williams

#11. Hinduism - indeed, most eastern religions - tells us that striving, even striving for happiness, is self-defeating. The moment you try to improve yourself, you've failed. Game over. Yet just lie there like a zombie and you lose, too. What to do?

Eric Weiner

#12. I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

Jennifer Egan

#13. Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

Mariella Frostrup

#14. Every moment we have, we end up spending it together. Like gravity is pulling us into each other's orbit and there's no choice but to either collide or keep rotating around each other.

Karina Halle

#15. It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

C.S. Lewis

#16. We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand.

Darin Strauss

#17. Would you excuse us for just one moment?" she said to the Lynburn. "My colleague and I need to confer in our office." With that, she hauled Angela into the empty stationery cupboard and shut the door behind them.
In the darkness, Angela asked, "Why am I in a cupboard?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#18. However difficult death is for us to accept, we must... how would we learn to appreciate each moment if it were not precious? If life were forever?

Michelle Harrison

#19. Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.

Shinmon Aoki

#20. There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Graham Nash

#21. All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective ... Remember, it is always later than you think.

Og Mandino

#22. We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.

Guillermo Del Toro

#23. Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.

Marjorie Grene

#24. Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

Isaac Watts

#25. Self-observation helps us to refocus within, to balance ourselves and to be in the present moment ...

Jacqueline Ripstein

#26. Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.

David Sanborn

#27. O friend, for the morrow let us not worry
This moment we have now, let us not hurry
When our time comes, we shall not tarry
With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry

Omar Khayyam

#28. Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.

Wayne Dyer

#29. What we want to do in this moment is rarely what's best for us. We need to take a longer view of life and to realize that to become someone worth becoming, I probably need to be doing things I don't want to be doing.

Vince Antonucci

#30. When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

Dani Shapiro

#31. Moment," said d'Artagnan. "I will not abandon Buckingham thus. He gave us

Alexandre Dumas

#32. Love is dangerous and often violent in the sense that it can radically alter us at a moment's notice.

Roberto Montes

#33. A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?

Dean Alford

#34. What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

Rick Yancey

#35. Redemption in its fullest sense is both something applied to us at a particular moment (it is punctiliar) and an ongoing process (it is progressive).

Bradley G. Green

#36. One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Marilyn French

#37. Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to us, already died once, long ago in a faraway place.

Jeno Marz

#38. Some of us live in the moment, Whilst others of us live in the 'forever

Andrea L'Artiste

#39. Yeah," I said, "Whatever." I didn't want to talk anymore about what had just happened; I hated that about Promise. Why couldn't a moment just happen, and both of us be aware of it, without having to comment on it forever and ever?

Emily M. Danforth

#40. We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

Anthony Trollope

#41. The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in the world ... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.

Ellen Goodman

#42. My husband's a little younger than me. When I first started dating him, I just fell mad for him. I made a deal with myself: I was like, 'I'm not gonna get weird about what the future might be. I'm just going to be in every moment I can and enjoy us to the fullest.' I told him that, too.

Joelle Carter

#43. In this moment there is no me, no him. Only us. One entity. One heart. One existence.

Siobhan Davis

#44. Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?

Lysa TerKeurst

#45. There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#46. How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

William James

#47. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

Colum McCann

#48. Friendship is the most beautiful relation in ones life, It gives us the best part of our life, a reason to smile,some happy moments,sharing the worse feeling,Love you forever my dear friend,miss you every moment

Debolina

#49. In every given moment we have a divine spiritual assignment in front of us: Choose love or choose fear.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#50. To this day, she's still sad. Because there's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I'm just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn't hurt me at all.

Tom Perrotta

#51. We let life live us, instead of us living life.

Helen M. Ryan

#52. When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Ezra Taft Benson

#53. We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos- the right moment- for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

Carl Jung

#54. So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

D.H. Lawrence

#55. Most of us have one BIG IDEA at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

Peter James

#56. friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. HENRI NOUWEN

Laura Petherbridge

#57. The devil will use fear, pride,jealousy, time wasters, hurt, thoughts, disappointments to get us to turn our eyes away from Jesus. Don't give him a moment in your life.

Amanda Penland

#58. It's so quiet out here, only ocean waves crashing around us. It's these moments when I realise that my time with Kiaran is such a fragile thing. At any moment, my human life could end and he'd still be as unchanging as the sea.

Elizabeth May

#59. There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#60. Every Moment can be History of tomorrow but its upon us what to do with this Moment
-Samar Sudha

Samar Sudha

#61. The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.

Joanne Woodward

#62. In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

Yo-Yo Ma

#63. Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.

Colleen McCullough

#64. That was one thing the Divines had taught us: treasure every precious moment. Do the things you've always dreamed of doing. Spend as much time as you can with the ones you love, because tomorrow you might not get the chance.

Violet Cross

#65. He nodded like he felt sorry for me and my stupid brain. 'I think that's probably because of your common sense. You can't accept the idea of arriving before you leave, the idea that every moment is happening at the same time, that it's us who are moving - ' Enough was enough.

Rebecca Stead

#66. More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.

Giovanni Ruffini

#67. Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air - "I love this moment, and it's a child of time.

Sena Jeter Naslund

#68. I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.

Jose Andres

#69. Thomas stares at the floor between us with hollow eyes. "I loved him, June," he says after a moment. "I really did. Everything I did as a soldier, all my hard work and training, was to impress him." His guard is finally down, and I can see the true depth of his torture now.

Marie Lu

#70. The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.

Frederick Lenz

#71. The Lord watches over us every moment of every day. He is there
and He cares
about every step and every breath.

Dillon Burroughs

#72. Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

Louise Doughty

#73. Robert Downey Jr. doesn't work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles martial arts studio.

Stephen Rodrick

#74. Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

Erma Bombeck

#75. It may not seem funny now, because it's happening to us, but centuries from this moment, people will laugh in wonder.

Matt Taibbi

#76. The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.

Brian Herbert

#77. About half of us dissociated our abuse at the moment it happened. We lived our days not knowing it happened ... or could happen again. But every survivor has shadows of their experience following them.

Jeanne McElvaney

#78. The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#79. There are two of us," Seth said quietly. "Everything changed the moment you were born.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#80. Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.

Ravi Zacharias

#81. For a moment, in his arms, with my mind so close to his heart, I listen to the wind pick up and think it just might lift us off our feet and take us with it.

Jandy Nelson

#82. Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

Paul Claudel

#83. Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#84. Tomorrow or next week wasn't guaranteed. Not that it ever was, but for us, things really weren't looking in our favor. There really was only one now, and I wanted to seize the moment and live in it.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#85. We are better than our culture. Load us down with prejudice, equip us with indifference, and we will nevertheless, at the critical moment, cast the nonsense aside and find our true selves.

Jack McDevitt

#86. As you will see, mindfulness practice does not need to be another "add-on." Its beauty lies in the fact that it can be fully and easily integrated into every act of our daily living, reminding us to live the present moment fully.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#87. Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We're creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#88. It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.

Elizabeth Lesser

#89. We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the crickets &
the dance of our voices

& for a moment
the world became
small enough to
roll back & forth
between us.

Brian Andreas

#90. At this moment, let us not forget that my authority has been challenged not by a warrior but by a monkey!

R.K. Narayan

#91. In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are.

Melissa McPhail

#92. This was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one of which our eyes told us, a world that no words could delineate, as insubstanttial as a cloud, as iridescent as a dragon-fly and as innocent as the heart of a rose.

Elspeth Huxley

#93. Happiness cannot be owned.
It is in living in the spiritual experience of living every breath, that lets us taste a moment of it.

Mimi Novic

#94. The depth of heartache and love, hurt and forgiveness we had experienced since the last time we were here. And my heart filled with gratitude for all of it, even the pain, because it had brought us here, to this very moment.

Mia Sheridan

#95. Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

Paul Auster

#96. The thing that makes us who we are, that goes with us from life to life, it never changes. We always know the people that have surrounded us deep down, whether they are meant to be in our lives at that moment of time or not.

Donna Augustine

#97. They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment.

Nia Long

#98. What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.

H. Rider Haggard

#99. You think cold pizza is a breakfast food," I said. "Only if you put Captain Crunch on it," she replied. There was a moment of silence as all of us considered this.

Seanan McGuire

#100. Yet this verse tells us that if we will give our burdens to the Lord, sometimes even on a moment-by-moment basis, he will carry them for us. What a promise! What an invitation! We have a Savior who cares for us intimately and is thinking about us constantly.

Cheri Fuller