Quotes About Moments

How quickly a year passes, like a mouthful of food snatched from the maw of eternity.

My brother looked at me. I looked at him. Sometimes- and I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second- sometimes there can be perfect understanding between two people who can't stand each other. He smiled, and I smiled, and we put on the Timex watches on, and we watched the seconds flit by. It was the first watch my brother had ever owned. It was the first watch I had ever owned.

Amor y tiempo son las únicas dos cosas en el mundo que no se pueden comprar, sólo gastar

Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

The truth about success is that our ability to achieve extraordinary results in the future lies in stringing together powerful moments, one after the other. What you do in any given moment determines what you experience in the next. Your "present now" and all "future nows" are undeniably determined by the priority you live in the moment. The deciding factor in determining how you set that priority is who wins the battle between your present and future selves.

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

The Wonder of it All: Sitting there in your pajamas & all the time in the world & if I could keep any moment it would be this: watching you & holding my breath with the wonder of it all.

Perfect Day: It was a day filled with the glow of ordinary things & we passed them quietly from hand to hand for a long time & someone said she had picked a perfect day to be born & I think all of us felt the same.

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.

I wish you could have been there for the sun & the rain & the long, hard hills. For the sound of a thousand conversations scattered along the road. For the people laughing & crying & remembering at the end. But, mainly, I wish you could have been there.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

We sat in the car & the night dropped down until the only sounds were the crickets & the dance of our voices & for a moment the world became small enough to roll back & forth between us.

In the end, I think that I will like that we were sitting on the bed, talking & wondering where the time had gone.

Life is fleeting, constantly spiralling into the past. And all we're ever able to hold on to is the precious present.

Life takes place in restaurants.

She was thinking that she was foolish to hope that someday, if she found the right path, she would be continuously happy. No one is that fortunate. The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together like the delicate glories on the necklace her father had given her. Everything else passes away; that which you love remains. She had to believe this, even if she wasn't sure it was true.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

That's a wonderful example of the glue of love. It is in the small moments, when we feel the other person fully present, fully engaged, connected, and accepting, that we make the most powerful, enduring bonds.

the most powerful and enduring human interactions are often very brief. You can spend hours with someone, but if you are not present and attentive, the hours are less powerful than these brief cereal moments.

sensory experiences that last mere seconds or are endured for years can remain locked deep in the brain. Yet as our brains develop, constantly absorbing new experiences while continuing to make sense of the world around us, every moment builds upon all the moments that came before.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

If you truly love life, don't waste time because time is what life is made of.

Only a fool would dream of riches when what is rarest are moments

life will sit on the tips of our tongues