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Quotes About Moments

Rabbi, I feel no despair anymore. For seventy years I had only nightmares, but I have no nightmares anymore. I feel only gratitude for my life, for every moment I lived. Not only the good moments. I feel gratitude for every moment of my life. I have seen so many miracles.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In de stiltes tussen de ogenblikken sijpelden de jaren weg.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
May you live every day of your life
~ Jonathan Swift
Life was good, one had only to live it.
~ Jorge Amado
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future.
~ Jorge Amado
You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Cuando uno extraña un lugar, lo que realmente extraña es la época que corresponde a ese lugar; no se extrañan los sitios, sino los tiempos.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
A pesar de que la vida de un hombre se componga de miles y miles de momentos y días, esos muchos instantes y esos muchos días pueden ser reducidos a uno: el momento en que un hombre averigua quién es, cuando se ve cara a cara consigo mismo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
In death we shall rediscover all the instants of our life and we shall freely combine them as in dreams.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Being with you or without you is how I measure my time.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
un acto es menos que todas las horas de un hombre.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
non si può misurare il tempo in giorni come si misura il denaro in centesimi o in pesos, perché i pesos sono tutti uguali mentre ogni giorno è diverso e forse anche ogni ora.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Pokušao bih uvijek imati lijepe trenutke, Jer se jedino od toga sastoji život, od trenutaka. Kada bih se mogao vratiti unatrag, borio bih se da nikada ne izgubim sada
~ Jorge Luís Borges
in one's memory, all days tend to be the same, but that there is not a day... which does not bring surprises
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Each moment we live exists, not the imaginary combination of these moments. A New Refutation of Time
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Para un verdadero poeta, cada momento de la vida, cada hecho, debería ser poético, ya que profundamente lo es.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Desde o crepúsculo do dia até ao dia da noite, toda uma vida inteira.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Time explodes, so again, eternity is not something everlasting. You can have it right here, now, in your experience of your earthly relationships. I've lost a lot of friends,...that moment when I was with them has an everlasting quality about it that is now still with me. What it gave me then is still with me, and there's a kind of intimation of immortality in that.
~ Joseph Campbell
Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
~ Joseph Campbell
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter ' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
~ A. N. Wilson
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
~ Aaron Siskind