Quotes About Moments

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

You have been all my moments of grace.

Mr. Marbleton tilted his head. "Do you really think of happiness as such a fragile entity?" "Mine is," she answered, still smiling. "I don't know that I've ever been properly happy. I simply careen between moments of intense buoyancy and moments of intense misery. Only my anxiety is constant: When I hope, I'm anxious that my hopes will come to nothing; when I fear, I'm anxious that my fears will all come true.

Sadness is poetic. . . . You are lucky to live sad moments. And then I had happy feelings because when you let yourself have sad feelings your body has like antibodies that come rushing in to meet the sad feelings. But because we don't want that first feeling of sad, we push it away with our phones. So you never feel completely happy or completely sad. You just feel kind of satisfied with your products. And then . . . you die.

Decide to live, Hannah. Reach out and grab every second you can. And I want you to do that with me.

Whatever mystery attaches to such a death is imposed on it by those who live. It is a tribute to the human spirit that the life preceding triumphs over the ugly events that most of us will experience as we die, or as we move toward our last moments.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

In the lives of working people the dramatic and vita moments of death and birth are passed over in silence.

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

you can dramatically extend life—not by multiplying the number of your years, but by expanding the fullness of your moments.

Five decades ago, some very kind people in Japan slipped me the secret: you can dramatically extend life—not by multiplying the number of your years, but by expanding the fullness of your moments.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy.

the best gift we can give each other is the gift of time -- those precious, special, eternal moments.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Winged lovely moments, can I call you home?

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

The most precious thing I have to give is my time.

How short life would be if certain unpleasant moments didn't make it feel endless!

recuerdo de los seres normales, son brevísimos y casi inexistentes para quien los prevé y solamente los vive.

Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away. In a sense, they never really stopped happening. Every moment you ever treasured, every friend you ever valued is still there, separated from us only by time; the past is still happening and always will be. It's only we who have moved on.