Quotes About Moments

The things that people were the most grateful for were the ordinary things in life. The sound of your spouse's laugh, the smell of morning coffee, the echo of children playing in the yard. The little things. In waiting for the big moments—the vacations, the retirements, the birthdays—we risk missing the experiences of life most worthy of celebrating.

social healing is made up of spacemoments of resonance, voices touching voices in a common space.

spacemoments of lived experience are continuously multidirectional.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Our life," he sighed, "is meant to be a series of love affairs—nothing more. And you all know that. And who knows whos just around the corner? . . . Come on," he said, passing gracefully from one awed person to another, "drink up!

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

All photographs are time exposures, of shorter or longer duration, and each describes a discrete parcel of time.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

It's the simple things we miss, she thought.

For today is part of yesterday. And yesterday and today are parts of being alive. And being alive is not just an affair of the days going clonk-clonk-clonk like the pendulum of a grandfather clock: being alive is something continuous, that does not repeat; something that one should be aware of all the time, sleeping and waking...

Or do Mafeking Night and the rest stand in the place of the secret and personal–in the place of what cannot be told and must perish with us–moments when for no reason that we can understand–a warm evening, the scent of leaves, a cock crowing far away–all the air becomes distended with grief. A moment such as this.

El tiempo pasaba. Era un hecho nada difícil de probar llegado el caso, aunque sucedían muy pocas cosas.

Days? Had it only been days? Does the heart count days, or even hours?

The hours after her discovery blur in his mind, though certain moments stand out sharp as splinters beneath his skin.

Counting the minute-long seconds and the hour-long minutes.

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

the first time in 15 years of television around the globe that a real life homicide had occurred in front of live cameras…. The Dallas shooting, easily the most extraordinary moments of TV that a set-owner ever watched, came with such breath-taking suddenness as to beggar description.

O that you would realize that each moment is golden.