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“Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.”

Life Inspirational Positive Eternity Instant

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.”

Life Life Is Water Tiny Instant Lakes Leap Bubbles Inches Trembling Glitter Ripple Blur Minnows

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.”

Life Mind Soul Matter Quality Our Lives Training Determine Luxury Instant Vitamins Mind Training

Author:Norman Doidge

“When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.”

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.”

Ifs Life Enough Wise Needed Constant Brave Glad Naked Instant Perpetual Veils Thrust Docile

Book:Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!

“Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]”

Life Moments Life Is Steps Graves Instant Moments Of Life

Author:Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon

“Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.”

Ifs Life Years Matter Whole Would Be Spirituality Universe Process Taken Evolution Enlightenment Conscious Gains Capacity Awakening Billions Instant

Author:Andrew Cohen