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Moment Quotes by Peter Matthiessen
- I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of…
- Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this…
- Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and…
- Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of…
- When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning…
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- 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