Quotes About Moments

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

What I write [. . .] doesn't seem to be . . . true. I mean I can model so little of what it's about. Life is a very terrible thing, mostly, with points of wonder and beauty. Most of what makes it terrible, though, is simply that there's so much of it, blaring in through the five senses. In my loft, alone, in the middle of the night, it comes blaring in. So I work at culling enough from it to construct moments of order.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Be true. Be vulnerable. Be passionate. Be endlessly fascinating. Be endlessly fascinated. Life is beautiful, all experiences are precious. Hold every moment close and dear.

Don't miss your life. Stop, look around and enjoy the now. Each moment through life is beautiful. Find that beauty everywhere you go and cherish.

There's no ending. Because every moment is just the beginning, each a new chapter, strategically placed to take you where you're meant to be, to help you grow, to help you learn, to help you understand and to help you appreciate.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

Each moment of life is a step toward death.

Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the kind of things remembered forever after it didn't have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or marriage or birth of a child. It more often was the small things. The sheer joy of summer sunlight on a fragrant flower. The giggle of a toddler. The brush of a lover's fingertips. And the person marks the moment with the flashing insight thinking... This is special. I should remember this

In the moments of labor and birth, all the forces of the universe are flowing through a woman's body.

It's not the length of time we knew someone that makes them so special. It's what they brought into our lives.

Our memories are filled with images that are doors into old scenes in our lives.

YANG FANA ADALAH WAKTU Yang fana adalah waktu. Kita abadi: memungut detik demi detik, merangkainya seperti bunga sampai pada suatu hari kita lupa untuk apa. "Tapi, yang fana adalah waktu, bukan?" tanyamu. Kita abadi. Perahu Kertas, Kumpulan Sajak, 1982

May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.

We rush through our days so quickly and have so many little rituals that we do, day in and day out, but then a moment like the last day of school comes along.

Life is short. You've got to take what you can while you can.

I will never forget that moments, or the moments that came after

Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

writes Madeleine L'Engle, "in kairos we are completely un-self-conscious and yet paradoxically far more real than we can ever be when we are constantly checking our watches for chronological time."10

Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.