Quotes About Everyday Moments

#1. You can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones. Ultimately, the real question is whether you want to be happy.

Chris Hadfield

#2. The story of the world is not the story of coups and revolutions. It is the story of lost keys and burnt coffee and a sleeping child in your arms. History is the untallied sum of a million everyday moments.

Eric Weiner

#3. There are only perfect, glowing moments, like this one, and then there are the everyday moments that weave them together into a shimmering path that can always be seen, even in the dark. "You

Kristan Higgins

#4. The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.

Frederick Buechner

#5. Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.

Chris Hadfield

#6. The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy goals, discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of the everyday moments.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#7. I have a feeling that when I'm Stormy's age, these everyday moments will be what I remember: Peter's head bent, biting into a chocolate chip cookie; the sun coming through the cafeteria window, bouncing off his brown hair; him looking at me.

Jenny Han

#8. I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

Minnie Driver

#9. Every day is spectacular sacred time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

James H. Austin

#11. deliberately look for God in the ordinary moments of everyday life.

John Ortberg

#12. In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

Jonathan Swift

#13. Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy ...

Leo Buscaglia

#14. Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.

Mark Nepo

#15. The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little moments of everyday life. It's the themes of struggles that emerge from those little moments that reveal what's really going on in our hearts.

Paul David Tripp

#16. Stefan's love bathed her, shone through her, lighting every dark place in her soul like the sun. She trembled with pleasure, with love, and with longing.

L.J.Smith

#17. Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#18. I do believe in an everyday sort of magic
the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.

Charles De Lint

#19. According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings ...

Peter Singer

#20. My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. I'm always looking for a small moment that is a revelation

Gregory Crewdson

#21. The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

Walt Frazier

#22. Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

Guy Finley

#23. Women's Book of Empowerment: 323 Affirmations That Change Everyday Problems into Moments of Potential.

Charlene M. Proctor

#24. Maybe it's not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.

Anna White

#25. She was tired hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that everyday would hurry so she could get on to the next. Hoping that it would be a better day, an easier day. But it never was.

Cecilia Ahern

#26. I guess haiku is an inspiration for me. Everyday, simple moments.

Misha Collins

#27. But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just ... us.

Daniel Quinn

#28. Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

Isaac Watts

#29. Keep your eyes out for # magical moments, they're everywhere! Live with passion today and everyday!

Tony Robbins

#30. Like raindrops, beautiful women were every-where. Like raindrops, only a few ever landed on you. They would either soak into your constitution or drip away into that puddle of other former love disasters drying out; dying in the Bangkok sun.
Red Night Zone - Bangkok City

James A. Newman

#31. The magic of everyday life is the sacred moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. While Motherhood is not perfect, we have the opportunity to share many beautiful and perfect moments with our children everyday. We just need to be awake to those moments and attuned to them so we can more fully enjoy them. ~ Mothering with Spiritual Power by Debra Sansing Woods

Debra Sansing Woods

#33. I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.

Ellar Coltrane

#34. There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns dropped out and, with nothing more to bind them together, the hours of his life fell apart.

Robert Musil

#35. After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things

Georgette Heyer

#36. I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.

Jane Pauley