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Quotes About Moments

Love is all the small moments. It is what fills the quiet.
~ Jessica Shirvington
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
~ John Updike
Meeting the people. I love it. Just talking with people and sharing part of their lives for just a few moments ... I get love and appreciation and I hope I give them the same.
~ Karolyn Grimes
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
~ Lillian Hellman
Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear "Love" by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment it will bring me to tears.
~ Lou Barlow
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.
~ Meg Cabot
Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.
~ Meredith Ann Pierce
These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.
~ Michelle Moran
A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home
~ Nicholas Sparks
One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.
~ Beverly Donofrio
it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.
~ Bill Bryson
If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
~ Bill Watterson
The best presents don't come in boxes.
~ Bill Watterson
Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.
~ Blue Balliett
Faith is the fullness to realize that each moment of our lives is a gift; that the whole of our lives is a spiritual journey, whether in our darkest hours or brightest joys.
~ Bo Lozoff
They loved each other greatly. Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. To them - and this made them unusual - the moments when passion visited their doomed human existence like a breath of timelessness were moments of revelation, of even greater understanding of life and of themselves.
~ Boris Pasternak
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
~ Boris Pasternak
history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.
~ Brad Meltzer
the days are long and the years are short.
~ Brad Thor
He had long ago learned to take his peaceful moments where he could find them. Who knew what tomorrow would bring?
~ Brad Thor
When digital watches were invented years later they reminded me of five-minute checks. They murdered time in the same way -slowly- chopping off pieces of it and lobbing them into the dustbin with a little click to let you know time was gone. Click, swish, Checks, swish, click: another five minutes of life down the drain. And spent in this place.
~ Susanna Kaysen
When digital watches were invented years later they reminded me of five-minute checks. They murdered time in the same way—slowly—chopping off pieces of it and lobbing them into the dustbin with a little click to let you know time was gone. Click, swish, "Checks," swish, click: another five minutes of life down the drain. And spent in this place.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Some of my most precious moments of insight have been those in which I have seen clearly that gratitude is the only possible response. (Sylvia Boorstein, from You Don't Look Buddhist)
~ Sylvia Boorstein