Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
—Aidan Chambers in Dying to Know You
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
—Hermann Hesse
Nonviolence is not some exalted regimen that can be practiced only by a monk or a master; it also pertains to the way one interacts with a child, vacuums a carpet, or waits in line. . . . Whenever we separate ourselves from a given situation (for example, through inattentiveness, negative judgments, or impatience), we "kill" something valuable: . . . people, things, one's own composure, the moment itself. . . . These small-scale incidences of violence accumulate relentlessly, are multiplied on a social level, and become a source of the large-scale violence that can sweep down upon us so suddenly. . . . One need not wait until war is declared and bullets are flying to work for peace. . . . A more constant and equally urgent battle must be waged each day against the forces of one's own anger, carelessness, and self-absorption.
—Kenneth Kraft
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
—Byron Katie
Either move or be moved.
—Ezra Pound
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau
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 in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
—The Teaching of Buddha
Do you ever feel like what's happening at this moment will never happen again? Like you could never repeat it, no matter how hard you tried?
—Jennifer E. Smith in Field Notes on Love
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
—Aristotle