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Moment Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to…
- The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same…
- The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
- He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
- Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach…
- Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
- In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in…
- I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of…
- You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and…
- I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I…
- In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on…
- Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?…
- Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.
- I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as, indeed,…
- In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human…
More Moment Quotes
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. — Paul Auster
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach