Quotes About Moments

But every day brought enlivening moments and laughter. One day a BBC crew appeared, driving down to the beach in a big black Range Rover. Everyone kept their heads down and pretended to be very busy as Hazel did the required. She showed the presenter Neil Oliver some prize finds, such as a polished Bronze Age pendant, but the producer wanted a retake. 'Can you emote more?' she asked Hazel. Then they went away.

No doubt he was brooding upstairs in their bedroom, or perhaps in his study, wishing to God that he'd had the sense to stay the hell away from her as her father asked of him. God knew there had been a few moments as of late when she'd thought the very same. And then she realized that she would rather be miserable with Grey than content with any other man. How pathetic and deranged was that?

It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

The world's not perfect,but somethings in it are,and when we find them, we need not to let them go

there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.

Life feels precious. It is.

For me God existed in Primo Levi's writing, in the moments of reprieve he described when one human granted another respect in that godless wasteland of cruelty.

All these moments, even the less pleasant ones, are snapshots we can never replace once they're lost, and it leaves us wishing for just the slightest glimpse of them

All these moments, even the less pleasant ones, are snapshots we can never replace once they're lost, and it leaves us wishing for just the slightest glimpse of them if it means we can feel whole again.

Manusia tidak pernah bisa tahu apa yang akan dialaminya. Selama masih bernyawa, kita harus bisa menikmati hidup ini. Suzue

Recklessness is beauty Ashbery says. When a car door opens in the dark at ninety miles an hour what rushes in is beauty. The wind's hymns are inaudible, the words chased off by scarecrows from the blurry fields. The murmuring heart beatless all those moments waiting to see if you will live.

Our lives are filled with these brief intersections, these unknowable trajectories that never travel in straight lines.

Kelvin Christopher James

In general your brain stretches out time when there's a lot going on. That's why time seems to pass more slowly in childhood than it does in adulthood—because kids are doing so many new things for the first time. If you want to have a longer-seeming life, that's the secret...Keep trying lots of new things, and enjoy each moment!

It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of moments I can't deny. When it brushe against the fire or dwelt in the Fire of God.

These moments move fast, if they are going to move at all, and with no superfluous nonsense. If they don't move, they die.

O heart, heart, so singularly Intransigent and corruptible, Here we lie entranced by the starlit water, And moments that should each last forever Slide unconsciously by us like water. — Kenneth Rexroth, from "Another Spring," One Hundred Poems from the Chinese . (New Directions January 17, 1971) Originally published 1956.

There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

How my memory treasures every sweet stray moment of our past — handclasp, kiss and heart-beat, the passion of those dear unfathomable eyes, the rustle of garments, the gliding steps and lingering farewells!

If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace... — treasure them.

Life's too short for chess.

But the second reason overshadowed the first, as the present overshadows the past, especially if it is an astonishing, urgent present in which each minute counts

Después de todo, ése era el secreto de la felicidad: disfrutar de cada momento dentro de sus condiciones propias, sin imaginarse otras.

The Future… something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.