Quotes About Moments

in the end, the only thing that matters is what we do with the time that we have left.

we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.

we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

But who can say that the clock's numbers aren't peeping from rectangular windows, where I see every minute fall on me with a click like the blade of a guillotine?

Each second is a universe, the second I live is the second I live in

Are you depressed or euphoric? The house, in its wisdom, seems to have taken advantage of your moments of euphoria to prepare itself to shelter you in your moments of depression.

Perhaps for you, each book becomes identified with your reading of it at any given moment, once and for all. And as you preserve them in your memory, so you like keeping them near you.

I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts brings with it its consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it.

THERE ARE MOMENTS in a lifetime when you can taste history as it is happening. When the flavor of time, from one hour to the next, somehow is not quite the same as any day before.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

His spirit was never to waste a single moment, for once it was gone, it was gone forever.

It didn't seem like a year. It had gone by like a lifetime when you look back and think of a time so far away that you can't clearly remember what happened yet a time that has gone so quickly it seems only a minute ago it started.

Even in one's most physical moments, the real craving was for love.

When grown-ups take a picture, they have to get a shot of every possible combination of people. That's the first rule of being a grown-up.

He wondered how a dog no bigger than a loaf of bread had accomplished so much damage in a matter of moments.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.

One of the most vital moments for creating safety is when a group shares bad news or gives tough feedback. In these moments, it's important not simply to tolerate the difficult news but to embrace it.

Creating safety is about dialing in to small, subtle moments and delivering targeted signals at key points.

the most important moments in conversation happen when one person is actively, intently listening.

but of all the things you might do in your final ten minutes, it's a pretty safe bet that few of them are things you actually did today.

Cognitive neuroscientists at Drexel and Northwestern universities have found that the flashes of insight that precede "Aha!" moments are accompanied by a large burst of neural activity in the brain's right hemisphere

Oxford University Press researchers, "time" is the most common noun in the English language.5