Quotes About Moments

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

Trifles make the sum of life.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

The days are long, but the years are short.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.

Sublime moments refracted, Even if only for seconds, Caught forever in your soul.

Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time.

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

Choice is creation. To choose is to create. Through my choices I create my reality. At every moment in my life I have a choice. Moments add up to a lifetime; choices add up to a life. What kind of life do I want for myself? What choices will create this kind of life?