Best One Moment Wisdom
379 One Moment quotes by 299 unique authors
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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and…
— Oprah Winfrey
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One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.
— Anne Rice
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I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love…
— Jeanette Winterson
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So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you…
— Alexandre Dumas
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside…
— Stephen Dobyns
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How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next?…
— Paulo Coelho
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Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment,…
— Jodi Picoult
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A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as…
— Carl Sagan
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For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a…
— Laura Whitcomb
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Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her,…
— John Green
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Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister,…
— Charles Dickens
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It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a…
— Bette Greene
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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
— Leo Buscaglia
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I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away…
— Jodi Picoult
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there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your…
— Jodi Picoult
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It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he…
— Jodi Picoult
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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how…
— Yann Martel
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I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one…
— John Green
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