Quotes About Moments

...we can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasure...

Life itself is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either. To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on: That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me?s enough. Behold this world?s delights, and view its various pains: If not to you, the joy it shows to me?s enough.

Und ich dachte, dass die Zeit ein Dieb ist. Sie stiehlt uns alles. Zuerst gibt sie uns alles, aber dann müssen wir alles abliefern. Menschen, Begegnungen, Momente. So einfach ist das. So grausam ist das.

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Todo termina y, ¿qué importa que termine un poco antes o un poco después puesto que de todos modos termina? Todo lo que termina es breve. ¿Y acaso será un mal el que la vida sea breve? No, porque la brevedad es la que la hace preciosa.

Acquaintances give us moments; friends give us hours; good friends give us days.

How many scenes in your life like this have you missed? I think. The unseen beauty of nature. Like today.

Life's too short to spend with important people.

Life is too precious to spend it with important people.

You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy.

What kind of a day was it? A day like all others, that alters and illuminates our times. And you were there.

It was just your life. You were just living your life.

The more I have, The more I realize that all that matters is the small discoveries, the little interactions, the improvised, messy, glued-together moments that lie at the centre of our happiness. Everything else is just a distraction.

How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.

Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. —Unknown

You will remember it as having been a moment of intense and complete joy. Look to that moment. You will know when you are seeing world as Spirit, because you will recognize that feeling of joy.

When we open our eyes to the little miraculous events all around us, life becomes a story of many little resurrections, one after the next.

But by the time those acquaintances became close friends, it was too late. Perhaps there was a perfect moment in between, when you were close enough to tell but not so close it was problematic that you hadn't done so already, but it was infinitesimal, too fleet and fleeting to pin down, visible not even in hindsight.

You have a fixation with time - clocks, years. What do they matter when there's love?

These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.