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Quotes About Moments

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. I can remember now, with a clarity that makes the nerves in the back of my neck constrict, when New York began for me, but I cannot lay my finger upon the moment it ended, can never cut through the ambiguities and second starts and broken resolves to the exact place on the page where the heroine is no longer as optimistic as she once was.
~ Joan Didion
Nor can we know ahead of the fact (and here lies the heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is) the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself.
~ Joan Didion
What gives those December days a year ago their sharper focus is their ending
~ Joan Didion
Hi ha moltes coses boniques al món; poques tant com els records. Hay muchas cosas bonitas en el mundo;pocas tan bonitas como los recuerdos
~ Unknown
All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.
~ Joanne Harris
Matamos o tempo; o tempo nos enterra.
~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.
~ Jodi Picoult
I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.
~ Jodi Picoult
What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?
~ Jodi Picoult
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.
~ Jodi Picoult
This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
~ Jodi Picoult
Life is not a plot; it's in the details.
~ Jodi Picoult
memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain. But there's a fine line between a negative moment and a traumatic one. Negative moments get remembered. Traumatic ones get forgotten, or so warped that they are unrecognizable
~ Jodi Picoult
it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoulder, and a gap where there is room for one more.
~ Jodi Picoult
I wonder if you've got a minute. I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.
~ Jodi Picoult
You've seen those pictures of couples kissing in front of a Christmas tree, or clasping hands on their wedding day, or holding a newborn baby between them-a snapshot of joy. But what do you really know about them? Just that at the second the shutter clicked, they loved each other. You have no idea what trials came before, or after. You don't know if one of them cheated, if they grew apart, if a divorce loomed on the horizon. You simply see that in one static moment, they were happy.
~ Jodi Picoult
Love begins in a moment, grows over time, and lasts for eternity.
~ Unknown
Hope you share precious moments on your anniversary and discover more about each other as you move on with life together.
~ Unknown
Love gives you reasons to smile and good times to laugh about but most of all, it gives you memories you could never forget.
~ Unknown
Lovely times of life will not return back forever...but, lovely relation & missing memories of friends will stay in the heart forever..
~ Unknown
The best Birthday wish that you can get for the day is that may you live each moment of your life to the very fullest, without any regrets. Happy Birthday!
~ Unknown
Family values are a little like family vacations - subject to changeable weather and remembered more fondly with the passage of time. Though it rained all week at the beach, its often the momentary rainbows that we remember.
~ Unknown
Over the years we have shared so many moments, both good and bad. I am forever grateful to have a best friend like you. Happy Friendship Day!
~ Unknown
Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.
~ Unknown