Quotes About Moments

When I walk past Little Jimmy Dickens, he'll say, 'Hey Morgan!' Those are the moments you can't buy, when you're idols know your name and they mess with you and play jokes on you.

This is man, who, if he can remember ten golden moments of joy and happiness out of all his years, ten moments unmarked by care, unseamed by aches or itches, has power to lift himself with his expiring breath and say: I have lived upon this earth and known glory!

Every moment is the fruit of forty thousand years.

We are the sum of all the moments in our lives - all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape it or conceal it.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years.

And always America is the place of the deathless and enraptured moments, the eye that looked, the mouth that smiled and vanished, and the word; the stone, the leaf, the door we never found and never have forgotten. And these are the things that we remember of America, for we have known all her thousand lights and weathers, and we walk the streets, we walk the streets forever, we walk the streets of life alone.

But we are the sum of all the moments of our lives—all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape or conceal it. If the writer has used the clay of life to make his book, he has only used what all men must, what none can keep from using. Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.

Twenty years. A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

Louise closed her eyes. She could not define what she was feeling but knew no other way to express it than to say that she loved him. So that's what she said. It occurred to her that you only get glimpses of love, your whole life, just bits and pieces.

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness after another?

Strange, how seldom a person knows which days of his life are tragic and which are happy

Dreams don't have time. Neither does sleep, nor death. That's why it is sometimes good to wear a watch.

The moments when you are feeling most lost are simply the moments when your art is seeking new growth.

We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

moments of perfect peace are rare and to be relished. We sat and savoured. The purring of the cat, th

We can't stop time, but it will sometimes stand still for love. PEARL S.

Forever—is composed of Nows— EMILY DICKINSON

No se puede parar el tiempo, pero para el amor a veces se detiene. Pearl S. Buck

Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.

Each life is the sum total of its moments.

You're beautiful, lovely, wonderfully unique. Don't spend your energy on being upset, spend it on being a glowing star in happy wonders. Because you are a star, even in the darkest moments, your glow is impervious.

We can't save it up or hoard it. We have to spend it second by second, in real time.