Quotes About Moments

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today.

Where can we live but days?

A veces uno es consciente de cuándo están produciéndose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre al mirar el pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas." James Salter, Quemar los días

before two a.m.

A veces uno es consciente de cuándo están produciéndose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre al mirar el pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas.»

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

You may suppose that time is only passing-away, and do not understand that time never arrives. . . . People only see time's coming and going, and do not thoroughly understand that being-time abides in each moment. Being-time has the quality of flowing. . . . Because flowing is a quality of time, moments of past and present do not overlap or line up side by side.

Each given of life comes to us trailing many graces.

You're going to re-enact all your star idols' peak moments when you desperately ached to be there in the middle of the action.

In one of the rare moments that he discussed his private beliefs, Lincoln declared he would join a church if he found one whose only requirement was to follow the Golden Rule.

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

That life is precious. Every moment is precious. We should be kind to each other. While there is still time.

life is precious. Every moment is precious

Belief in miracles is the confidence that, at rare and wondrous moments, grace may overcome fate.

The ability to ask beautiful questions, often in very unbeautiful moments, is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it, as it does by having it answered. You just have to keep asking. And before you know it, you will find yourself actually shaping a different life, meeting different people, finding conversations that are leading you in those directions that you wouldn't even have seen before.

Only in one comic book, Dr. Strange, did I find anything that approached a depiction of the esoteric or spiritual. I remember Dr. Strange lying back in meditation and then leaving his body to do battle with villains on the astral plane. That, however, didn't strike me as very much like my magical moments beneath the sun and the sky when the whole world seemed to stand still.

The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don't need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the power; the wind carries the influence. And as for fame, well, when you allow yourself to notice all those hands that have made your growth possible, you will also recognize what you have made possible for countless others — and how famous you already are. In this very moment, one of those others may be telling a story about how you helped them grow forward.

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst

There are no ordinary feelings just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked-over cans of paint. Are feelings ever succinct? The haiku is quick but its ripples to the horizon go.

You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.

But I didn't want to share everything yet… I needed that time alone with it first, that delicious time where you replay every moment, where you make what has happened more real and also less—it becomes fact the more you repeat it, but it becomes story, too.

You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have the past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.

There are those moments, probably few in a life, where before and after split off from each other forevermore in your mind.