Quotes About Moments

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.

One after another those words travelled over my memory, repeating themselves again and again with a wearisome, mechanical reiteration. I was roused from what felt like a trance of many hours--from what was really, no doubt, the pause of a few moments only--by a voice calling to me.

We don't live in a series of plot points. We should be thankful for that. We should realize how lucky we are.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

I felt truly happy for the first time in years. Such moments should be logged and noted.

Time passes and pisses on us all.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month.

Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

each look burdened with youth's immemorial obsession not with time's dragging weight which the old live with but with its fluidity: the bright heels of all the lost moments of fifteen and sixteen.

you can`t recycle wasted time

The writing is never what takes the most time. It's trying to figure what you're going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene.

It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died. Long time.

History is nothing more than a series of small yesterdays.

If we don't have time for masterpiece moments, the very reason we came to earth is being wasted on us.

These felt very much like last moments.

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

All that had taken place in many years of life at Boranly-Burannyi junction, all this great strain over a long time, all the troubles, difficulties and joys he had lived through - all this had to be expressed in a few words of farewell in the few minutes of laying to rest. How much, yet how little, is given to a man!

This is the great trap of life: One day rolls into the next, and a year goes by, and we still haven't had that conversation we always meant to have. Still haven't created that peak moment for our students. Still haven't seen the northern lights. We walk a flatland that could have been a mountain range. It's not easy to snap out of this tendency. It took a terminal illness for Gene O'Kelly to do it.

The "occasionally remarkable" moments shouldn't be left to chance! They should be planned for, invested in.

Defining moments rise above the everyday. They provoke not just transient happiness, like laughing at a friend's joke, but memorable delight. (You pick up the red phone and someone says, "Popsicle Hotline, we'll be right out.") To construct elevated moments, we must boost sensory pleasures