Quotes About Moments

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;For now hath time made me his numbering clock:My thoughts are minutes.

You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies.

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

The journey must be taken in individual moments. Enjoy the ride for the ride.

Now I carry those days in a tiny box wherever I go. I open the lid like this and let the light glimpse and then glance away. There is a sigh like my breath when I do this. Some days I do this again and again. — William Stafford, from "Remembering," The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems , ed. Robert Bly (HarperPerennial, 1993)

Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.

The unimaginable touch of Time.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.

Even if your game has frequent rewards rather than a single overarching victory condition, I'd recommend that your find those reward moments and make them clearer, brighter, and shinier.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

They may be nothing more than scraps of paper, but they capture something profound. Light and wind and air, the tenderness or joy of the photographer, the bashfulness or pleasure of the subject. You have to guard these things forever in your heart. That's why photographs are taken in the first place.

Acaso piensas que no son más que unos papelitos con una emulsión química en una de sus caras? Si es así, te equivocas. Son mucho más que eso. Atesoran parte de la vida de las personas. Reflejan la futilidad de un instante; la luz, el viento y el aire de un paisaje; la sonrisa y el azoramiento de la persona fotografiada, y el gozo y amor de quien toma la foto por aquello que fotografía. Por eso precisamente hacemos fotografías y por eso deben conservarse.

The stations of life are not places to inhabit. Rather, they are moments of opportunity that will not repeat themselves.

It had its moments," I said. "I'll be damned if it didn't have its moments.

In an average life lived by a relatively average soul, what else remains but singular moments of astonishingly framed light?

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. This kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of present-moment reality. It wakes us up to the fact that our lives unfold only in moments. If we are not fully present for many of those moments, we may not only miss what is most valuable in our lives but also fail to realize the richness and the depth of our possibilities for growth and transformation.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today.

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

Perhaps all families have these fleeting moments when, without ever saying as much, they take each other in and think, we work and we fit together and we love each other, and if we can remain like this, all will be fine.