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1 " Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. "
― Frederick Buechner , Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
2 " Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say " I think," " I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. "
3 " I believe in being a poet in all moments of life. Being a poet means being human. I know some poets whose daily behavior has nothing to do with their poetry. In other words, they are only poets when they write poetry. Then it is finished and they turn into greedy, indulgent, oppressive, shortsighted, miserable, and envious people. Well, I cannot believe their poems "
― Forugh Farrokhzad
4 " Some days some times are remembered by me, in life’s all moments they are cherished by me "
― Amit Abraham
5 " that was bad; i shouldn't have done thatto prevent you from entering a catatonic statei am going to maintain a calm facial expressionwith crinkly eyes and an overall friendly demeanori believe in a human being that is not upseti believe if you are working i should not be insaneor upset--why am i ever insane or upset and not working?i vacuumed the entire house this morningi cleaned the kitchen and the computer roomand i made you a meat helmet with computer paperthe opportunity for change exists in each moment, all moments are aloneand separate from other moments, and there are a limited number of momentsand the idea of change is a delusion of positive or negative thinkingyour hands are covering your faceand your body moves like a statuewhen i try to manipulate an appendageif i could just get you to cry tears of joy one more time "
― Tao Lin , Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
6 " The simple truth is that love is a part of who we are, not something that others " give" to us if we're worthy of it. We're taught that if we just find that right person, and that person " falls in love" with us, everything will be fine. We're not taught about recognizing the love that is a part of our spirits, the love that we radiate when we recognize the beauty and need in all the people that surround us. Love is ours to share, at all moments and in all situations, but for some reason we fear doing so. "
7 " We cannot be judge and jury, the hardest thing is to understand the unknown and in knowing the hidden all things are revealed giving truth.God is watcher during all moments and at the end the real Judge. "
― Zarina Bibi
8 " Happiness & Me:-Happiness is That one place,Those old friends,& some new people,Those feelings,Those moments & me..!Happiness is Those rainy days &Those rainy nights,Those cool long rides,Those hot coffees,That window & some good books & me..!Happiness is Those family gatherings ,Those laughter,Those tears,Those eventful hugs,Those dinners & me..!Happiness isthat crush,Those late night conversions,Those breathtaking feelings,Those sleepless nights & vivid thoughts,Those cravings for just one thing,That first love feeling & me..!Happiness isThose beautiful places,Those alluring scenes,That one magical fascinating fragrance,Brings out thousands of memories,Memories that built you & breaks you,Memories that makes you sail between happiness & sadness,Those moments & me..!Happiness isThose little helps,To needy & poor people,With no intention of hurting,Just as an act humanity,To see a smile of “Pure happiness”Those moments & me..!Happiness isPlanting a little plant, In hope to blossom it into a, Gorgeous flower & sweetest fruits one day,Those fairy tales under it & me..!Happiness isThose sweet fights with god,In order to unanswered wishes of life,But my dear that’s nor fair,Sometimes god has bigger plans for us,Than we’ve for ourselves,How these all moments bothers a life we live,& all you need to find is,Moments of happiness & you..!! "
9 " A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way), I feel a pensiveness within. This pensiveness gives my life a quality that might be best described as bittersweet. And those moments take on double meaning and richness - because they are here now - and because they will not always be. "
10 " There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn’t an art anymore. Maybe it never was "
― Robert Frank
11 " Pay attention! At all moments of the day you are either leading or being led. "
― Steve Maraboli , Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
12 " But like all moments trapped in time, that moment would end and Joey Boldt, as all the greats before him did, would begin to understand that clinging too tightly to anything results in Time and Fate shaking you until you can't hold on any longer. And then, when you are knocked for a six and lose your grip, they allow you to spiral into a freefall where men are broken and legends are made. "
― Melodie Ramone , Burning Down Rome
13 " Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because just when you least expect it, you might receive exactly what you least expect. "
― Douglas Coupland , Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lectures)
14 " Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is explicit or before it sees its object, manifests itself as boredom or some other kind of suffering. And what did I think of myself in relation to the great occasions, the more sizable being of these books? Why, I saw them, first of all. So suppose I wasn't created to read a great declaration, or to boss a palatinate, or send off a message to Avignon, and so on, I could see, so there nevertheless was a share for me in all that had happened. How much of a share? Why, I knew there were things that would never, because they could never, come of my reading. But this knowledge was not so different from the remote but ever-present death that sits in the corner of the loving bedroom; though it doesn't budge from the corner, you wouldn't stop your loving. Then neither would I stop my reading. I sat and read. I had no eye, ear, or interest for anything else--that is, for usual, second-order, oatmeal, mere-phenomenal, snarled-shoelace-carfare-laundry-ticket plainness, unspecified dismalness, unknown captivities; the life of despair-harness or the life of organization-habits which is meant to supplant accidents with calm abiding. Well, now, who can really expect the daily facts to go, toil or prisons to go, oatmeal and laundry tickets and the rest, and insist that all moments be raised to the greatest importance, demand that everyone breathe the pointy, star-furnished air at its highest difficulty, abolish all brick, vaultlike rooms, all dreariness, and live like prophets or gods? Why, everybody knows this triumphant life can only be periodic. So there's a schism about it, some saying only this triumphant life is real and others that only the daily facts are. For me there was no debate, and I made speed into the former. "
― Saul Bellow , The Adventures of Augie March