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title: "11 Eternal Moment Quotes by 10 authors"
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> [The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-keyes-jr/the-past-is-dead-the-future-is-imaginary-happiness-can-only-be-in-the/)

[Ken Keyes Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-keyes-jr/)

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> [that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabindranath-tagore/that-which-is-eternal-within-the-moment-only-becomes-shallow-if/)

[Rabindranath Tagore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabindranath-tagore/)

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> [The destination of life is this eternal moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-destination-of-life-is-this-eternal-moment/)

[Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/)

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> [“We breathe in as existence, and breathe out as life. It is the heartbeat of the eternal moment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-gillette/we-breathe-in-as-existence-and-breathe-out-as-life-it-is-the/)

[Franklin Gillette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-gillette/)

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> [We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kornfield/we-have-only-now-only-this-single-eternal-moment-opening-and/)

[Jack Kornfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kornfield/)

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> [All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-keyes-jr/all-there-is-in-your-life-is-the-eternal-now-moment-and-your/)

[Ken Keyes Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-keyes-jr/)

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> [To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/to-refine-to-clarify-to-intensify-that-eternal-moment-in-which-we/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

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> [“Where does the world’s zephyr strike from the view which let you to live the eternal moment of love other than in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sorin-cerin/where-does-the-world-s-zephyr-strike-from-the-view-which-let-you-to/)

[Sorin Cerin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sorin-cerin/)

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> [“All things are in motion, all is in process, nothing abides, nothing will ever change in this eternal moment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/all-things-are-in-motion-all-is-in-process-nothing-abides-nothing/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [“Their lives had been an interminable loop of repeated gestures; now their existences were winnowed to this discrete and eternal moment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colson-whitehead/their-lives-had-been-an-interminable-loop-of-repeated-gestures-now/)

[Colson Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colson-whitehead/)

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> [In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pier-paolo-pasolini/in-the-end-oh-i-know-never-in-my-haggard-passion-have-i-ever-been/)

[Pier Paolo Pasolini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pier-paolo-pasolini/)

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