Moments Are Measured By The Moments Quotes & Sayings

Insecurity is like a net, and I let it catch me. — Autumn Doughton

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan. — Rabindranath Tagore

The robbery of time is not measured in lifespans but in moments. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes. — Brooke Burgess

Moments aren't always measured in years, but savored in minutes. — Karolyn Cairns

Moments vs. Years
Life's too long when measured in years,
and too short when measured in moments. — Beryl Dov

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. — Susan B. Anthony

I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that. — Lewis Thomas

I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures. — Paris Hilton

We always knew that we didn't want to show Alan Turing in the act of suicide - it was our feeling that would tip over into melodrama too quickly and seem over-the-top. — Graham Moore

Our lives are not just measured in minutes. They are measured in moments - moments when the minutes stand still. — Mark Batterson

Character is not measured by moments of success; it is measured by the grace in which you move through adversity. ~ Stefan Nelek — Jennifer Turner

And that's how life is measured - not by the length, but by the strength of those moments spent together. — Rachel Van Dyken

a life is measured by moments like these — Maggie Stiefvater

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take your breath away - anon — Scarlett Flame

Women did such things and went on doing them while the sun died because in all of women's lives there were so many moments that would kill the mind if one thought about them, which would suck the heart and the life out of one, and engrave lines in the face and put gray in the hair if ever one let one's mind work; but there was in the rhythm and the fascination of the stitches a loss of thought, a void, a blank, that was only numbers and not even that, because the mind did not need to count, the fingers did, the length of a thread against the finger measured evenly as a ruler could divide it, the slight difference in tension sensed finely as a machine could sense, the exact number of stitches keeping pattern without really the need to count, but something inward and regular as the beat of a heart, as the slow passing of time which could be frozen in such acts, or speeded past. — C.J. Cherryh

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace. — Carly Fiorina

The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them. — Virginia Woolf

Man operates in chronos, or measured time; God operates in kairos - an opportune or supreme moment. The determination of when kairos moments take place is in accordance with God's sovereignty, and is far beyond our human grasp of understanding or control. However, God's timing is always perfect and our submission to His timing is critical to our personal peace. — Teresa Hairston

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious experience, for example, it is not a thing that imposes itself on man but a spiritual presence. 5 What is retained in the soul is the moment of insight rather than the place where the act came to pass. A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness. — Gladys Taber

And thou shalt in thy daughter see,
This picture, once, resembled thee. — Ambrose Philips

When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments. — Haruki Murakami

Time for us began to be measured by moments when we spoke, and moments when we longed to speak again. — Richie Singh

In delay there lies no plenty. — Shirley Jackson

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.' — Diane Keaton

Life shouldn't be measured in hours for the vagueness in which they exist, but moments; moments are memorable and we could easily say that a short life filled with a stock of extraordinary memories is worth a thousand times what a long, boring and loveless one is. — Emiliano Campuzano

They say that life isn't measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. I have to agree with that.
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And I am breathless now.
Because I am breaking.
Breaking inside, fragments, jagged and sharp.
Breaking in slow motion. — Karina Halle

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away! — Vicki Corona

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. — John F. Kennedy

Emerson writes that "no one expects the days to be gods." But now, as time flies and a baby will grow in a place of my choosing, I know. The days are gods. They are each unrepeatable and each a lesson in scope and wholeness, each worth honoring. I can hold and turn these days, consider their resonance, dim and bright moments, sound the depth and know the lullingly measured length. And know that for the time being my memories, and the days in which they are created, are not the only ones of which I'm in stewardship. — Liz Stephens

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

I want a long life, measured not in days and years but the moments that we spent together — Sapan Saxena

Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down. — Joan Bauer

Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's hard for the same people who put you in the ditch to pull you out of it. — Greg Brenneman

I began to understand that my life was measured in moments. There were moments that tested you, challenged you, and moments that could make you fall to your knees, begging for one more moment but you see, those moments defined you as a person. You need to take them as they come because before you know it, you're out of moments. — Shey Stahl