Quotes About Moments

Zeit ist doch nichts zum Anfassen, [...]. Wie kann man sie da verschwenden?

To figure out the internal values, Yamashita urges company leaders to look back in time and consider this question: Who have we (as a company) historically been when we've been at our best? At the finest moments in a company's history, Yamashita holds, its core values usually came shining through. But from time to time it may be necessary to revisit that past to reaffirm the company's higher purpose.

Epiphanies often are characterized as "Aha! moments," but that suggests the problem has been solved in a flash. More often, insights arrive as What if moments—bright possibilities that are untested and open to question.)

The mind, if preoccupied with a problem or question long enough, will tend to come up with possibilities that might eventually lead to answers, but at this stage are still speculations, untested hypotheses, and early epiphanies. (Epiphanies often are characterized as "Aha! moments," but that suggests the problem has been solved in a flash. More often, insights arrive as What if moments—bright possibilities that are untested and open to question.)

Friendships are not made in the blur of life. They are made in the margins.

Maybe they're a blessing—those first few misty moments of morning, when you're allowed to forget what your life is really like today.

Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you.

Life is short but it is wide.

I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you. Hopefully most of those moments are wonderful, but of course they won't all be. The trick is to recognize an important one when it happens.

The clock doesn't die when time runs out.

Watch carefully the children around you. In precious moments you will catch a glimpse of your Savior's face. Listen intently and you will hear his voice. Walk gently among them; his footprints are all around you. Embrace them, for you are embracing him. Respect them, because they are sometimes God's agents – exactly the kind of instruments he needs. At such times, only a child will do.

these days of exotic splendour may stand out in each lifetime like marble mileposts in an alluvial land

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Die Summe unseres Lebens sind die Stunden, in denen wir liebten.

?nsan?n önemli anlarda dilsizle?en bir filozof oldu?unu ke?fetmesinden daha korkunç bir ?ey olamaz.

Ich finde... dass sich ein Buch gerade vorzugsweise zu einem freundschaftlichen Geschenk eignet, man liest es oft, man kehrt oft dazu zurück, man naht sich ihm aber nur in ausgewählten Momenten, braucht es nicht wie eine Tasse, ein Glas, einen Hausrat in jedem gleichgültigen Augenblick des Lebens und erinnert sich so immer des Freundes im Augenblick eines würdigen Genusses.

The years tumble past you like bits of paper on the street and you may not even feel the breeze at your back but then something catches your eye, a twist of black hair or a dog leaping to catch a tennis ball. The splintered chorus of a stupid pop song. You turn around and another chunk of your life drifts by like unrecognized trash and it was never yours to begin with.

Uma história é sobre eventos significativos e momentos memoráveis, não sobre a passagem do tempo. A negligência com a duração é normal em uma narrativa, e o fim muitas vezes define seu caráter. [...] É assim que o eu recordativo funciona: ele compõe histórias e as retém para futura referência.

The mistake that people make in the focusing illusion involves attention to selected moments and neglect of what happens at other times.

And therein lies a realization I had recently: Even in my darkest moments, I cannot think of my daughter's life or my granddaughter's life as meaningless. Their mere existence feels meaningful to me whenever I think about them. How could such vital and beautiful creatures possibly be insignificant? Yes, these are the sentimental thoughts of an old codger, but do take note, Teacher.

Maybe Francis Bacon had it wrong—at least in Ayer's case. Instead of finding meaning in religion as the result of studying philosophy in depth, Ayer found that meaning by not thinking like a philosopher at all for a few divine moments.

El tiempo de leer, como el tiempo de amar, dilatan el tiempo de vivir.

Le temps de lire est toujours du temps volé. (Tout comme le temps d'écrire, d'ailleurs, ou le temps d'aimer)

El tiempo para leer como el tiempo para amar dilatan el tiempo para vivir