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Life & Wisdom Quote by Storm Jameson

"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable"

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Jameson’s line reads like a rebuke disguised as a benediction. “The only way” isn’t gentle encouragement; it’s an ultimatum aimed at the modern habit of treating time as either a resource to optimize or a burden to endure. By insisting on “each minute,” she refuses the grand, poster-ready version of gratitude. The unit is deliberately small, even annoying in its demand. A day can be redeemed; a minute has nowhere to hide.

The phrase “unrepeatable miracle” does two things at once. It borrows the language of religion while stripping it of doctrine: no promised afterlife, no cosmic fairness, just the stark fact of singularity. The “miracle” here isn’t that life is good, but that it’s happening at all, in the face of contingency and loss. Jameson doubles down - “which is exactly what it is” - as if anticipating the cynic’s eye-roll. That insistence gives the sentence its steel: she’s not offering a mood, she’s asserting a metaphysical posture.

Context matters. Jameson’s life spans two world wars, political fracture, mass death - eras that make “unrepeatable” less Instagrammable and more horrifyingly literal. The subtext is survival without numbness: a refusal to let catastrophe shrink perception into mere coping. Accepting the minute as miracle doesn’t deny suffering; it denies the complacent fantasy that time is recoverable. The repetition at the end (“a miracle and unrepeatable”) feels like a writer pressing a thumb into the page, reminding you that the ordinary is not owed to you, and it won’t come back.

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Jameson, Storm. (2026, January 15). The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-only-way-to-live-is-to-accept-each-minute-as-161703/

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Jameson, Storm. "The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-only-way-to-live-is-to-accept-each-minute-as-161703/.

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"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-only-way-to-live-is-to-accept-each-minute-as-161703/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Storm Jameson (January 8, 1891 - September 30, 1986) was a Writer from England.

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