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There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
Meister Eckhart
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
Tennessee Williams
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Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
Keith Haring
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Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
Mark Rothko
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We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.
Rose Wilder Lane
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your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.
Laura Kasischke
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The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.
D.T. Suzuki
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An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.
Susan Abulhawa
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You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
David Deida
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Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.
Larry Winget
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Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.
Donald Trump
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One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.
Wumen Huikai
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It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.
Dorothy Koomson
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
Ann Brashares
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.
Seungsahn
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There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.
Jim Dale
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Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.
Bob Hope
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Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head
John Lennon
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To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.
Timothy Keller
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Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?
Jason Collins
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I turn bullish at the instant my buy stop is hit, and stay bullish until my sell stop is hit.
Ed Seykota
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One instant is eternity; eternity is the now.
Wumen Huikai
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Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.
Samael Aun Weor
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Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.
Eileen Caddy
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
Lady Gaga
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The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
Susan Sontag
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And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.
Jack London
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Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.
John Thorn
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The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
Robin G. Collingwood
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
Haim Ginott
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Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.
Emeli Sande
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Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.
Robin Lee
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It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
Dennis Potter
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I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
Nathalie Handal
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You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.
Manu Joseph
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The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
Plutarch
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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
Don Marquis