Moments - Quotes
We are only truly alive in those moments when we improvise; no schedule, just small surprises and stimuli from the environment.
One doesn`t recognize the really important moments in one`s life until it`s too late.
I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. [...] We`re all vulnerable.
Our present swarms with traces of our past. We are histories of ourselves, narratives. I am not this momentary mass of flesh reclined on the sofa typing the letter a on my laptop; I am my thoughts full of the traces of the phrases that I am writing; I am my mother`s caresses, and the serene kindness with which my father calmly guided me; I am my adolescent travels; I am what my reading has deposited in layers in my mind; I am my loves, my moments of despair, my friendships, what I`ve written, what I`ve heard; the faces engraved on my memory. I am, above all, the one who a minute ago made a cup of tea for himself. The one who a moment ago typed the word "memory" into his computer. The one who just composed the sentence that I am now completing. If all this disappeared, would I still exist? I am this long, ongoing novel. My life consists of it.
Infinity is like a wild animal, spotted in the depths of a forest. You catch a glimpse of something, but moments later you aren`t sure if you saw it at all. Then, unexpectedly, the animal comes into full view.
Sometimes the most significant moments happen in your life without any choice at all.
No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. [...] The big moments are gonna come. You can`t help that. It`s what you do afterwards that counts. That`s when you find out who you are.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)
I know firsthand that challenging times often come first before the most rewarding moments.
I think to be a well-rounded person, you have to experience good and bad, wonderful moments and pain. You need to meet people who have no exposure to kindness, who lack any opportunity and have no way out - like the homeless, the mentally ill - and you`ve got to learn empathy for them.
The day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.
There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees.
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.