Quotes about Moments

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

O that you would realize that each moment is golden.

During this period, so many important events have occurred, and such changes in men and things have taken place, as the compass of a letter would give you but an inadequate idea of. None of which events, however, nor all of them together, have been able to eradicate from my mind, the recollection of those happy moments—the happiest of my life—which I have enjoyed in your company.

To say this once again, the focus of the Bible on fasting is not on what we get from fasting or on motivating people to fast in order to acquire something, but instead lands squarely on responding to sacred moments in life.

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

Never a bad day, only bad moments.

they asked them if they could do it all over again and live their life again what would they do differently. The three things that almost all of them said were: (1) They would reflect more. Enjoy more moments. More sunrises and sunsets. More moments of joy. (2) They would take more risks and chances. Life is too short not to go for it. (3) They would have left a legacy. Something that would live on after they die.

Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.