Quotes About Moments

I'm sure there are many other Forrest Gump moments that I'm forgetting. I don't mention them as boasts, but rather as evidence of how ridiculously lucky I have been to have lived the life that I have.

Life was short, love was rare, and time.time was easy to waste.

Strangely enough, the least presidential moments of the visit persuaded some of the Post's editors that Trump wasn't putting on an act for them. Fred Hiatt, the paper's editorial-page editor, had to ask, How could a man running for president justify going on a nationally televised debate and talking about the size of his penis?

A prelude is more freeform than a regular game session, skipping around to cover the important points in the characters' background, defining moments that help shape who the character is and will be. The player gets a chance to test out certain traits to see if the character is capable of what the players wants him or her to be able to do.

Each day is a lifetime.

Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.

I realized that life is a series of good-byes and I had to make sure that I didn't waste my days or use them up too soon.

The memories we take to the ends of our lives have no real rhyme or reason, especially when you think of the endless things that you do over the course of a day, a week , a month, a year, a lifetime. All the cups of coffee, hand-washings, changes of clothes, lunches, goings to the bathroom, headaches, naps, walks to school, trips to the grocery store, conversations about the weather ---all the things so unimportant that they should be immediately forgotten. Yet they aren't

Yet the sameness is also a trap. It's part of the narrowing of your world, the tunnel vision of age. When something different happens to you, it's hard to see it as a good thing. Which means you can't always recognize a perfect moment or get yourself to a place where one can happen. Or sometimes perfect moments happen and you don't even realize it. That is why you need to travel.

No creo equivocarme al comparar el sueño con el amor; no creo engañarme al comparar el amor con una especie de ensueño de dos, cierto que junto con instantes de ensueño individual, de pequeños juegos de conjunciones y cruces de caminos, pero que permiten, con todo, transformar nuestra existencia terrenal en un momento soportable, que incluso es, en verdad, el único medio de soportarla.

Our lives unfold in space, and time is just an inessential left-over.

Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away

Love is not a matter of counting the years . . . But making the years count.

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

death is quick. What is important is the happiness that came before it.

Life isn't just about major characters and the big events. It's about everyone, everything, in between.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.

It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment. If a person learns to enjoy and find meaning in the ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself, the burden of social controls automatically falls from one's shoulders. Power returns to the person when rewards are no longer relegated to outside forces.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

Wir stehen immer kurz davor zu leben«, sagte Ralph Waldo Emerson, »aber wir leben nie.«