Quotes About Moments

Life's finest treasures live in its simplest moments

At midnight tonight, you'll get a most amazing gift: a fresh set of 24 hours.

Shvatio sam da su naši životi zapravo niz trenutaka – ako ih propustite, propustili ste živjeti.

A great life is nothing more than a series of days well lived strung together like a string of pearls.

Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration. Never neglect to see the exquisite beauty in all living things. Today, and this very moment, is a gift. Stay focused on your purpose. The universe will take care of everything else. — The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

The days had no shape. They passed, which was good enough.

There's a word for it, she told me, in French, for when you have a lingering impression of something having passed by. Sillage. I always think of it when a firework explodes and lights up the smoke from the ones before it. That's a terrible word, I teased. It's like an excuse for holding onto the past. Well, I think it's beautiful. A word for remembering small moments destined to be lost.

Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened.

No matter how screwed up your life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start whenever you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know that tomorrow is gonna be better than yesterday

But it happens, and I am thankful enough for that, for those fleeting, wakeful moments of beauty and truth. They are the real joy of being human, brief matches that flare in the dark.

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?

It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.

Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair.' He sighed and smiled sadly. 'But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

I waver—in the dark—between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together—and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death.

Majid and Henry sat on the floor, staring at each other in the dazed amazement that only survivors know, where every detail is newly crisp and each fresh moment is like a crust of ice on a pond, a thin tangible layer between life and death.

Any day could be the last of life or liberty, so small pleasures were always worth pursuing.

A person lives sixty years, does all kinds of things, knows all kind of things, feels all kind of things, and then it's over. Like it never happened at all.

Every private thought is performed for public consumption, and every leisure moment (from toilet training to lovemaking) is a highly focused search for a specific gratification, guided by experts serving you in their field. No unexpected events or unanticipated human contact need apply.

A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on it's knees.

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

How long is forever? Sometimes just one second

This young lady loves you with an H," the King said, introducing Alice in the hope of turning off the Messenger's attention from himself—but it was no use—the Anglo-Saxon attitudes only got more extraordinary every moment, while the great eyes rolled wildly from side to side.

Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.