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“I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment?”

Real Moments Use Sin Clear Our Lives Ten Fundamentals Definitions Worthwhile Commandments Evaluate Ten Commandments

Author:Whitley Strieber

“Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?”

Ifs Knows Should Moments Seems Our Lives Example Consequence Deeds Things In Life Unimportant

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.”

People Has Beens Moments Technology Our Lives Modern Filled Distraction Locked Drifting Smartphones Modern Technology

Author:Glen Hansard

“The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.”

Moments Past Spirit Grace Our Lives Active Gifts Of The Spirit

Author:Kimberly Hahn

“I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.”

Moments Force Born Our Lives Painting Couple Projects Curiosity Portraiture

Author:Oliver Jeffers

“The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.”

Giving Moments Process Attention Creativity Pieces Our Lives Creation Mediums Our Time Greatest Gifts Alterations Decisive Moments

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.”

Made States Moments Lying Choices Existence Our Lives Quantum Awakened Choices Made

Book:The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy

Source: The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy

“Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.”

Feels Moments Happens Death Suffering Our Lives Dread

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.”

Moments Path Our Lives Flash Investigation Lightning Obscurity Labyrinth Right Moment

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.”

Moments Our Lives That Moment

Book:Seventh Son and Red Prophet

Source: Seventh Son and Red Prophet

“You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.”

People Has Beens Moments Seems Eye Given Taken Our Lives Player Events Drama Remarkable Over You Splendid Fever Immediacy New Eyes Improbability

Author:Doris Lessing

“Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.”

Knows Feels Moments Song Know How Our Lives Harmony Superiors Superiority Entering Something Better Better Than You Song And Dance Disharmony

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.”

Life Humans Moments Age Together Our Lives Fields Spring Areas Seasons Green Wine Presses Fruit Seeds Invisible Golden Harvest Human Experience Golden Age Clusters Spring Time

Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“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

“I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.”

Giving Doe Moments Light Seems Wish Forever Our Lives Misery Depth Insight Gates Flood Anguish

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.”

Ifs Knows Way Inspirational Moments Our Lives Alive Making Peace

Book:Being Peace

Source: Being Peace

“This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.”

Moments Science Our Lives Events Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.”

Moments Our Lives Crisis Pyramids Apex

Author:Ninon de L'Enclos

“The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.”

Children Moments Nice Our Lives Infatuation

Book:Complete Prose Works: English literature and Irish politics

Source: Complete Prose Works: English literature and Irish politics

“Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.”

Way Ideas Different Moments Bigs Chance Our Lives Different Ways Serendipity Big Ideas

Book:Not Dead Enough

Source: Not Dead Enough

“I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.”

Thinking Made Moments Action Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Our Lives Consequence Blame Mess Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Book:Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

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