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 The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.  Every second is of infinite value. The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss. Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment. There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries. This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. The span of life is waning fast; Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear! Florence Farr once said to me, "If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God." Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways. I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment. I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity. The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable. Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday. But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone. God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment. Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value. A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. ... He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now. We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone-its value is incontestable. Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going. The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical. Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. It is privilege of living to be ... acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life. We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness. The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. The moment of change is the only poem. If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light. I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there. Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort. Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. 
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