Quotes About Moments

Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate.

This is the chapter in which he praises his young monks for their commitment to a path of awakening and explicates the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

We are original in our happy moments. Sorrow has only one voice, one cry.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard, nor read about, nor seen, but, if one will, are to be lived.

Y la esperanza va ensanchando por momentos su ciclo sobre mí, y una imagen, su imagen, pasa vagamente por el éter, como la luna, a veces cegándome de luz ya veces cegándome de sombras.

There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three Aalim are surplus to requirements. And then there are those of us who are trapped in yesterdays, in the memory of a lost love, or a childhood home, or a dreadful crime. And some people live only for a better tomorrow; for them the past ceases to exist

We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.

She watched him recede into the past as he stood...each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

A maior parte das coisas que importam na nossa vida acontece na nossa ausência.

we are all seeking fulfillment while living at the mercy of changing experience. Whatever we acquire in life gets dispersed. Our bodies age. Our relationships fall away. Even the most intense pleasures last only a few moments. And every morning, we are chased out of bed by our thoughts.

the 2.5 billion seconds that make up the average human

When you act on your impulses to play, when you are open to the possibilities in each moment, you replace your fears with self-understanding, self-esteem, and personal strength.

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

I'm not going to get into details, but every band has their moments when things are tough. Just logistically, tough on your body, stress levels, psychologically tough, relationships can be tough.

That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

there are twenty-four hours in a day, sixty minutes in an hour and sixty seconds in a minute. A lot can be done in eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds.

She then had one of those sudden inspirations which only people of genius receive in great crises, in supreme moments which are to decide their fortunes or their lives.

A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years.