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“Florence Farr once said to me "If we could say to ourselves with sincerity 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know ' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."”
“Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
“I have the happiness of the passing moment and what more can mortal ask?”
“I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.”
“The present moment is creative creating with an unheard-of intensity.”
“The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.”
“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.”
“But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.”
“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.”
“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 extran...”
“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.”
“Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment but if cooking is evanescent so is the ballet.”
“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.”
“It is privilege of living to be ... acutely agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.”
“The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.”
“We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment all the while however exercising ourselves in goodness.”
“If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done.”
“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.”
“Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.”
“To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work fun of the most exhausting sort.”
