Quotes About Moments

True contentment comes from enjoying the smallest pleasures of day as much as the grandest moments of the year.

As laser-bright moments; diamond-hard memories; crisp and clear. A future lived, a future savored, a future of moments so sharp and pointed that they would sometimes cut and sometimes glint so brightly it would hurt to contemplate them, but sometimes, too, would be joyous, an absolute, pure, unalloyed joy, the kind of joy he hadn't felt much if at all lo these twenty-one years.

When people hear 'flourishing,' they think of appreciation and good feelings. But growth and development does not always equal 'feeling good.' Our culture is not about maximizing the minutes you feel good at work. We don't define flourishing by sitting-around-the-campfire moments. We ask people to do seemingly impossible things.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we reenact.

But it was on the occasions that he did the unexpected that he felt the most alive. Time seemed to stop; hours slowed to minutes, separated into seconds, halted into pictures. Still life images of emotion.

asking small questions to dispel fear and inspire creativity thinking small thoughts to develop new skills and habits—without moving a muscle taking small actions that guarantee success solving small problems, even when you're faced with an overwhelming crisis bestowing small rewards to yourself or others to produce the best results recognizing the small but crucial moments that everyone else ignores

These strategies include: asking small questions to dispel fear and inspire creativity thinking small thoughts to develop new skills and habits—without moving a muscle taking small actions that guarantee success solving small problems, even when you're faced with an overwhelming crisis bestowing small rewards to yourself or others to produce the best results recognizing the small but crucial moments that everyone else ignores

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime.

Time is precious. Don't waste it. Appreciate it.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.

All eras of history are an equal distance from eternity.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing. And if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them

Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years.

This can be your year. No, let me rephrase that: this will be your year. The year you reveal your brilliance. The year you get into world-class health. The year you fall madly in love with life. And make each one of your moments works of art. Keep shining.

our days are nothing more than our lives in miniature.

I was so busy chasing the big pleasures of life that I missed out on all the little ones.

One must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle — and a mystery.

This day is priceless. All the money in the world will not bring it back again. And so, I seize it and I savor it and I honor it.

Todas las personas que entran en tu vida lo hacen precisamente en el momento en que más necesitas aprender la lección que han venido a enseñarte.

Over the next twenty-four hours I vow to appreciate this day, as it is all I really have, and to use every minute wisely and fully. So much can be done over the next twenty-four hours to advance my life's agenda and complete my legacy. I will, throughout this day, remember that this day could be my last and that no great person ever died with their music still within them.

Man must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of his life is a miracle and a mystery.

Los mayores tesoros de la vida son, desde luego, sus momentos más sencillos», reflexionó. Esos hechos cotidianos que la mayoría damos por sentados. Hasta que los perdemos.