Quotes About Moments

Hay incidentes de un minuto que producen más efecto que un cortejo de un año.

Si incontreranno per tre volte, ma ogni volta sarà l'unica, e la prima, e l'ultima.

Trascorsero insieme settimane di piccola, intaccabile felicità.

Es geschehen Dinge, die wie Fragen sind. Eine Minut vergeht oder auch Jahre, dann antwortet das Leben.

Accadono cose che sono come domande.Passa un minuto oppure anni e poi la vita risponde. Things happen that are like questions. Times passes by, minutes or years and then life gives an answer.

I just enjoy the moment I'm in. For me, life is a whole experience, not just a series of isolated moments. It's like submerging yourself into a warm bath rather than sticking your toe under the faucet. It's the totality of life

Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day. The

That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.

Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day.

of day it was or how we were feeling, they were

We all have Proustian moments, but don't really know about it until we read Proust.

The world was an imperfect place--as the events of the last few days had demonstrated--but within that vale of tears there were many sites and times of quietude and contentment, and this place and this moment on the veranda was one such.

Yes, she agreed, there are times when I am unhappy and times when I am happy. There are more happy times than unhappy ones, I think.

A life without moments of unhappiness would be monotonous, I would have thought.

There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

But the truth is, most of the things that change the course of our lives happen in fleeting unguarded moments; grief buckling us at the knees; fear shattering through us like buckshot; love pulling us out on an unseen tide. And finding ourselves in the grip of these overpowering emotions, we then invent reasons based on the flimsy evidence we have accrued why they have happened, trying to make sense of the insensible with armloads of self-justification

We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

His eyes once did land on a longer piece of writing in which she put down her thoughts about the mystery of time. How one moment flowed into the next and that into the following, and so on, making an endless chain of tiny packets that defined one's existence. How no one could know what any approaching moment might hold. How they whisper by like leaves in a stream or hurtle past with great uproar, each with the prospect of changing the lives of people and nations.

sometimes God gives us things we don't need. And the best of the gifts He gives us is someone to share all the silly and grand, frivolous and spectacular—" Betty nodded solemnly. "—sad and heartbreaking—" Bonnie's grip tightened on Cora's fingers. "—joyous and exquisite moments of our lives.

What he didn't know was that he always would and that in all those important moments that were yet to come to pass in his life, there would be a searing wound. Over time the wound would grow smaller, but it would never disappear.

For him there were the hours of day to pass, but they would trickle through his hands as quietly, as simply as sand. The sun and the day would pass; there would come night. And the night would flame with a radiance surpassing the sun.