Quotes About Moments

Moments like modulations come in human relationships: when what has been until then an objective situation, one perhaps described by the mind to itself in semi-literary terms, one it is sufficient merely to classify under some general heading (man with alcoholic problems, woman with unfortunate past, and so on) becomes subjective; becomes unique; becomes, by empathy, instantaneously shared rather than observed.

Children serve as impossible-to-ignore, in-your-face timepieces, marking the relentless march of one's life through what otherwise might seem an infinite sea of minutes, hours, days, and years.

could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus its preciousness. We take it for granted, but it is fragile, precarious, uncertain, able to cease at any instant without notice. I was reminded of what should be obvious but too often is not, that each day, each hour and minute, is worth cherishing.

I figli sono come orologi che non si possono ignorare; segnano l'inesorabile marcia della vita attraverso quello che altrimenti sembrerebbe un infinito are di minuti, ore, giorni, e anni.

these moments you wonder what you are teaching their kids, and your own. Then you realize you are teaching them the truth about America.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Okay," I said. There are these moments when you see the course of your life unfolding, and you feel powerless to alter it.

There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments.

O aching time! O moments big as years!

O aching time! O moments big as years! All as ye pass swell out the monstrous truth

Life is what is happening today while you were planning tomorrow

By 1918 humankind was fully modern, and fully scientific, but too busy fighting itself to aggress against nature. Nature, however, chooses its own moments. It chose this moment to aggress against man, and it did not do so prodding languidly. For the first time, modern humanity, a humanity practicing the modern scientific method, would confront nature in its fullest rage.

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Little moments attach themselves to other little moments and collect into big dreams. We become what we experience.

I always carry a camera because it is so important to me to take pictures and document all the incredible things and places I have been able to see through this experience.

Everything is a once in a lifetime experience.

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

Age affects how people experience time.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.