Quotes About Moments In Life

#1. As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

Candice Millard

#2. There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

Etty Hillesum

#3. Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Carly Fiorina

#4. Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million.

Katie McGarry

#5. Forced relations between two things that superficially appear foreign create a new, instantaneous state. Authentic poetry asks nothing more. A kinship completely nonexistent moments ago was created by the poet's authority, just as it might have been created in life by the authority of chance.

Odysseus Elytis

#6. For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life

Ronnie James Dio

#7. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.

Rosen Topuzov

#8. A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don't do it to win anymore; we do it because it's what we know how to do. Get ready to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the calendar. It's our battle rhythm.

Angela Ricketts

#10. because sometimes all we get are moments. There are no do-overs; whatever happens in a moment defines life - perhaps it is life.

Tillie Cole

#11. There are moments in life where you don't get a do-over, where the true nature of your character is revealed. You either step up to the plate or lose your chance forever. These moments shape a life. These moments earn you the right to say to yourself 'at least I got the important stuff right.

P. Dangelico

#12. What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

Hans Zimmer

#13. ERIK ERIKSON, ONE OF the most innovative psychoanalysts of the twentieth century, wrote about these moments of existential review in his work on the human life cycle. He famously argued that all of us go through eight stages of development, each marked by a specific conflict.

Jennifer Senior

#14. The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.

Dan B. Allender

#15. It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

Hallie Burnett

#16. Photographs capture only the moments; but since every moment is very important in human life, every photo is also very important!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

Kara Goucher

#18. The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

Ben Huh

#19. I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

Emma Donoghue

#20. God always puts somebody in your life at the right moment.

Christian Hosoi

#21. Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.

Karen Salmansohn

#22. Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Josiah Royce

#23. I think time is elastic. There are moments in my life that are many, many years ago and yet I can conjure them as though it's a second ago. And there are other things that happened maybe last week that seem like ages ago.

Keith Carradine

#24. The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.

James Lee Burke

#25. So often the most meaningful moments in our lives are those that we share with our families. Treasured memories are created by celebrating, sharing and embracing the moments of life with the people we love.

Sandra Magsamen

#26. Savor the moments in life that make your heart glow. Chase after and find the moments that will take your breath away. In the end, it is only those milestones on life's journey that matter.

Michael Delaware

#27. In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come.

Chloe Thurlow

#28. Though time seems to expand or contract between idle and frantic moments, it passes the same in both: second by second. You can neither lose it or create it. Use it wisely.

Gavin Mills

#29. The hours ahead, like all her nights with him, would be added, she thought, to that savings account of one's life where moments of time are stored in the pride of having been lived.

Ayn Rand

#30. I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness
being happy
is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

Grace Kelly

#31. Go forward in life with a smile on your face, a sparkle in your eyes, and with great and strong purpose in your heart. The best things in life are the people in your life, the moments we live, and memories we made along the way.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#32. Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

Julie Powell

#33. You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Edwin Land

#34. What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

Terry Brooks

#35. Yes, life was made up of these instances in time. Big moments hidden inside little decisions.

Genevieve Dewey

#36. There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

Glen David Gold

#37. When you look back on your life, the greatest moments will be the moments when you went all in.

Mark Batterson

#38. In moments such as these, it's the minor seconds that count. Seconds that can make or break you. Seconds that can save your life.

Rebecca A. Rogers

#39. As I look back on the time I've spent with him, loving him, learning him, I'm grateful for the moments. Because in the end, it's the moments that make life worth living ...

Marie Hall

#40. Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication.

Torkom Saraydarian

#41. At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

Joseph Campbell

#42. Moments ... there are always moments where a decision has to be made. In mortal life there is always a choice. One road or another? The ultimate choose your own adventure story. In the clans, there is only one option, and that is to do whatever your clan's oracle tells you to do.

Kim Cormack

#43. Mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.

August Sander

#44. It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Paulo Coelho

#45. I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

Charlie Kaufman

#46. The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#47. Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#48. I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain, but you'd be surprised if you knew what it had meant to me, at critical moments of my life, to be dressed exactly in accordance with my mood. It gives one such confidence, I think.

Christopher Isherwood

#49. Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

David Goggins

#50. Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

Sylvia Day

#51. If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

Desmond Tutu

#52. Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

Virginia Woolf

#53. Some injuries can only be cured by our creator. We can try to hide them but the pain is too deep. These are the moments in every human's life that we seek for a cure, when the pain becomes too much to bare.

Ellen J. Barrier

#54. There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.

Haley Pullos

#55. If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.

Joel Kinnaman

#56. There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

Robert Breault

#57. Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life ... trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

George A. Sheehan

#58. Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

Nhat Hanh

#59. I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.

Adam Duritz

#60. Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

Rick Warren

#61. Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better.

Tim Howard

#62. I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#63. We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives.

Carla H. Krueger

#64. Depression is real. It happens. We go through it. Hold onto yourself in those moments.

Avijeet Das

#65. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

#66. Sometimes the most important moments in your life can only be seen in the rearview mirror.

Dete Meserve

#67. The real investment in life is not so much in the house you have, or the car. Your real investment is what you carry in the heart, and if you carry that passion for anything that you do, then nothing can really stop you. You enjoy the greater moments of everything,

Mike Horn

#68. I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.

Patti Callahan Henry

#69. In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

Sherman Alexie

#70. One thing I've come to realize in life is that; you don't have to be defined by your life worst moments".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#71. In life moments arrive where the mouth becomes tongueless and the eyes become tongue!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#72. I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

Isabel Allende

#73. I gaze at her beautiful face and realize all the beautiful moments in my life have been with her by my side.

Jillian Dodd

#74. We live not in our moments or our years:
The present we fling from us like the rind
Of some sweet future, which we after find
Bitter to taste.

Richard Chenevix Trench

#75. The measure of our success will not be determined by how we act during the great times in our life but rather by how we think and respond to the challenges of our most difficult moments.

Jon Gordon

#76. There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened.

Randy Pausch

#77. It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there - his wit, his skeptical mien, his abrupt gesticulations when he talked, his quiet and sentimental moments.

Carl Sagan

#78. You always hear people talk about how there are moments in your life when you just know that things will never be the same. I always thought that was all horseshit. But here, now, with the feeling of her soft, incredible lips moving with mine, I know that it happens.

Steph Campbell

#79. I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.

Scott Lynch

#80. I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

Wayne White

#81. Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

Drake

#82. Life can change in a moment, so we must appreciate every single day we are given.

Kristine Carlson

#83. In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a job where confidence, energy, perhaps even a certain arrogance were all that mattered, all qualities that lay within his grasp.

David Nicholls

#84. Obviously if you're positive, then there's positive energy flowing in your body. The moments are smoother - thought process is smoother. But if there is doubt, then also your body's not going to move that well, your thought process is not clear.

Sachin Tendulkar

#85. Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive. Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments.

Katie Gill

#86. In fact, until the last moments of his life, until the last seconds as he gasped for breath, he never realised how much he wanted to live. But, at that point, death was inevitable and nothing that had happened could be changed.

Stephen Craig

#87. This women's moment to embrace the power-to for good in life and leadership.

Gloria Feldt

#88. There were moments in a person's life that they would carry with them until their dying day, and Finely knew the moment Jasper's heart broke would be one of those for her.

Kady Cross

#89. It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.

Carlos Maria Dominguez

#90. Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen

Mike Dooley

#91. Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime.

Philip Treacy

#92. Be in love with the moments of your life.

Matthew Knisely

#93. Women come into our shop for that ultimate moment in their life. They're buying a dream. They're buying a moment for themselves. That's what I sell - moments.

Philip Treacy

#94. We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when we are filled with despair.

Albert Camus

#95. the present is all that you ever have in life, and that these moments of magic are too precious to be ignored because you're too busy thinking about the next thing.

Nick Alexander

#96. Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

Cory Booker

#97. There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

Robert Cormier

#98. The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life.

John Welwood

#99. I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.

Asif Ali Zardari

#100. There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out
what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

Aleksandar Hemon