Quotes About Moments

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Time is long but life is short.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?

You can't start over. There's no such thing as starting over. There's only history. And right now you're making tomorrow's history. So go out, and do something that will be fun to remember.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago

There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

I read in hopes of little sparkling moments that are going to turn my head inside out.

Every moment is a holy moment if we are present in it. Peace and stillness, love and wisdom, joy and creativity are the fruits of the present.

Indeed, the big decisions in life are hardly ever clear—except for one. And that one is piercingly clear: life is a series of dilemmas, of options, of conundrums, of possibilities taken and not taken. Negotiating these moments well is of the essence of the life well lived.

How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!

Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

For what is it that angels do? They bring us good news. They open our eyes to moments of wonder, to lovely possibilities, to exemplary people, to the idea that God is here in our midst. They lift our hearts and give us wings.

Thank you, God, for unexpected joys. For the simple moments in life that make me smile. For the precious gift of loving friends and pets.

The boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief simple moments of companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.