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Quotes About Moments

Les 'idées' sont pour moi des moyens de transformation - et par conséquent, des parties ou moments de quelque changement. Une 'idée' de l'homme 'est un moyen de transformer une question'.
~ Paul Valery
Il faut, voyez-vous, nous pardonner les choses: De cette façon nous serons bien heureuses Et si notre vie a des instants moroses Du moins nous serons, n'est-ce pas ? deux pleureuses.
~ Paul Verlaine
Celebrating the times of your life, and the life in your times. from IT AIN'T ALL ABOUT THE COOKIN
~ Paula Deen
It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.
~ Paula McLain
But the loss came with moments of incredible happiness, and the feeling of being seen and understood, of being found. There might be no future, no future at all, but time had sharpened into an unforgettable point. And that was a version of forever. That might be the only version of forever worth reaching for.
~ Paula McLain
Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other.
~ Paula McLain
This is why there is poetry. For days like these.
~ Paula McLain
I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.
~ Paullina Simons
This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.
~ Paullina Simons
We've had a minute, Tatiana thought. We had our minutes on the bus. And at Kirov. We had our minutes in Lugo. And in the Summer Garden. Breathless minutes, we had. What we want, she thought, keeping herself from welling up, is eternity.
~ Paullina Simons
Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.
~ Pearl Bailey
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
~ Pearl S. Buck
I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
~ Penelope Lively
The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.
~ Penelope Lively
Life speeds by and no matter how much joy there is, there is sadness.
~ Penn Jillette
Il tempo per leggere, come il tempo per amare, dilata il tempo per vivere
~ Unknown
One day we shall die. But all the other days we shall be alive.
~ Unknown
Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.
~ Per Petterson
Time is important to me now, I tell myself. Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but be only time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by, so that it grows distinct to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.
~ Per Petterson
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, hope, and self-esteem, like clouds depart And come, for some uncertain moments lent. Man were immortal and omnipotent, Didst thou, unknown and awful as thou art, Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the beginning the stories were long and colored, but as he grew old and his eyes clouded, the stories were told in only a few words, and she came to understand that all the colors had fallen away from him, leaving only the moments. A woman who performed tricks in the air, an animal pulling a boat under water, dead children who spoke in bones. A man who loved bottles.
~ Unknown
Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.
~ Peter Brook