Quotes About Moments

She learned that time could not be the measurement for the things that lasted. Sometimes what endured was that which changed us in a matter of moments, not years.

It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.

Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so used to the subtleties of beige and brown, and then a sunshine-yellow poppy bursts from the arm of a prickly pear. How I loved those flower moments, like when he pointed out the moon and Jupiter, but they were rare, and never to be expected.

And because circumstances rarely match, and one afternoon can be a patchwork of both joy and horror, the taste of the soup washed through me

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress, they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments and, without either lying or embellishing, thus lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting woolliness of the present.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

He knows that perfect happiness comes in tiny, incremental units only, perhaps no more than five minutes at a time. This is what one has to take with both hands and cherish.

Thunderstorms were what death, and dramatic events, generally should be like, but usually were not; the idea that our life's dramas rarely look as dramatic as they are. Our most cataclysmic moments are typically free of gravitas, of necessary thunder; a person dies, but instead of the sky darkening and lightning striking, the sun continues to shine and the birds to sing.

Mutluluk, bizim beklentilerimizdeki gibi kesintisiz ve uzun süren bir memnuniyet duygusu deÄŸildir. Aksine, akl?n ve bilincin de iÅŸin içinde olduÄŸu, k?sac?k ve tesadüfi bir olgudur; k?sa bir süre için dünyay? çok net alg?lar?z; geçmiÅŸin ve geleceÄŸin olumlu düÅŸünceleri bir araya gelir ve endiÅŸeler ortadan kaybolur. Fakat bu durumun on dakikadan daha uzun sürdüÄŸü pek nadirdir.

En la eternidad las demoras no importan, pero en el tiempo son ciertamente trágicas». (T-5.VI.1:3).

Have they been together a lifetime, or only a moment? Who can say?

Robert Black: ...looking forward to it. Sounds like his writings have taught you a lot... Randall Carver: ...Yes. Dunsany's work teaches subtlety, concealing momentous events in otherwise quiet passages.

You're only young once, Valkyrie." "Yeah, but it goes on for ages.

The mere observation that something is popular, or even that it became so rapidly, is not sufficient to establish that it spread in a manner that resembles a virus. Popularity on the internet is driven by the size of the largest broadcast. Digital blockbusters are not about a million one-to-one moments as much as they are about a few one-to-one-million moments.

Enjoy life, because quick as the wind blows in, it disappears the same way, what I'm hinting at, just like our lives on earth, we appear; and we also depart.

The stupidest mistakes I have ever made in life was all those split seconds in the weak moments I cried over inamorata that didn't want me. -MillYentei

There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary

when the great moments came, you should stop and enjoy them, because they weren't going to last.

Moments we take for granted become precious memories.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.