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Famous Precious Moments Quotes

There are no ordinary moments. - Dan Millman

There are no ordinary moments. — Dan Millman

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn. — Frederick Leboyer

This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other. — Patience Strong

So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate! — Sark

When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny. Alas, don't spoil this precious moment. Moments like this are very, very rare. — Rumi

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. — Corita Kent

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them. — Jessica Lange

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again. — Rick Bragg

Every little moment has a meaning all its own. — Sanford Meisner

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love. — Rumi

There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity - Marc Levy

There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity — Marc Levy

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings. — Danielle Trussoni

Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief. — Kazuaki Tanahashi

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet. — James Patterson

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD — Rick Warren

Short Precious Moments Quotes

  • There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity. — Diana Palmer
  • Life is short, and every moment is precious. — Gad Saad
  • Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. — Jack Layton
  • Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Use each moment to make another's eyes sparkle and to warm a heart. — Doreen Virtue
  • A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. — Leonard Nimoy
  • Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment. — Stephen Sondheim
  • I always think of moments of love with someone I love. — Gaspar Noe
  • Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing. — Wayne Dyer

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Precious moments quote Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.
Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.

Most Precious Moments Quotes

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. — Nicholas Sparks

I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!" — Bryan Kest

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession. — Dale Carnegie

Precious moments quote Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations bui
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

The moment you wake up, right away, you can smile... You are aware that a new day is beginning, that life is offering you twenty-four brand new hours to live, and that that's the most precious of gifts. — Nhat Hanh

I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life. — Robert Harling

I have been very influenced by the Japanese concept of space - the preciousness of space, and how one's environment can be shaped to make the most out of limited resources. That's the kind of thing we need to look at again - how momentous the results can be from very subtle changes. — Philip Taaffe

Precious moments quote Every minute spent worrying about "The way thing were" is a moment stolen from creating the way thin
Every minute spent worrying about "The way thing were" is a moment stolen from creating the way things can be.

I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there are tsunamis and mudslides, when there are armies and terrorists - at any moment, you could be gone, and potentially in the most brutal fashion. — Jennifer Beals

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself. — Thomas Jefferson

I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything. — Luke Davies

Life's Precious Moments Quotes

Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize. — Macklemore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted. — Wes Moore

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep. — Jerome K. Jerome

Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life. — Eckhart Tolle

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own. — Harmon Killebrew

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life. — Dave Pelzer

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out. — Sandra Brown

As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it’s gone forever. — J. Michael Straczynski

Our Precious Moments Quotes

Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life. — Pema Chodron

Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom. — Akiane Kramarik

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. — Og Mandino

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?' — Elie Wiesel

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. — Maya Angelou

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it. — Guy Finley

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality. — Vladimir Nabokov

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it. — Ram Dass

There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing. — Winston Churchill

There have been those moments in my life - in all of our lives - where you think, "I could literally be dead at any moment." Once you go down the rabbit hole, you realize how precious life is and you realize you never realized before how precious life is. — Dominic Rains

Moments To Cherish Quotes

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear. - Ann Voskamp

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear. — Ann Voskamp

We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives. — Solanus Casey

Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life. — Jim Rohn

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. — Robert A. Johnson

If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. — Erma Bombeck

The lesson learned: Never take your loved ones for granted. And if you’re ever lucky enough to find that one person in life who makes you love more than any other person could possibly make you love, you treat every day together as if it were your last. You cherish every moment. — SebastiAn

We had two goals...One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow. The other was to win a gold medal. — Kerri Walsh

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend. — John Green

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

All endings are inexorably tied to new beginnings. That's the nature of the journey. It continues to unfold. It builds on itself. It can't help itself from doing that. Cherish the moments, all of them. You have seen and felt much in life so far. But still, the best is yet to come. — Melody Beattie

Cherish Every Moment Quotes

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself. — Paramahansa Yogananda

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. — Thomas S. Monson

Life is beautiful. Cherish every moment even if you're stressed or hurt or whatnot. There's always tomorrow and it always gets better — Ariana Grande

Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment. — Eric Kandel

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness. — Gail Sheehy

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. - Earl Nightingale

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. — Earl Nightingale

The moment is the sole reality. — Karl Jaspers

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation. — Eckhart Tolle

Let's start a new tomorrow, today. — Neil Gaiman

Special Moments Quotes

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. — Og Mandino

Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child,or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn't necessarily have to mean expensive. — Aerin Lauder

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death. — Rudolf Virchow

I didn't sleep with the European Cup but it was in my room! It was just special and I just had to have the cup with me, lifting the cup as Liverpool captain was just the best moment of my life. — Steven Gerrard

There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn't that what we're all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the "now"? — Jon Krakauer

In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something. — Yo-Yo Ma

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning? — Fred Rogers

I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment. — Hoodie Allen

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour. — Winston Churchill

Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones! — Wayne Dyer

Beautiful Moments Quotes

Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever. — Nas

When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough. — Vera Nazarian

In those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world. — Gerard Way

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be. — Oscar Romero

What I treasure most in life is being able to dream. During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe. — Frederick Buechner

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare. — Alexander Pushkin

He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud. — Mia Couto

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. — Coco Chanel

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. — Robertson Davies

Wonderful Moments Quotes

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. — Gary Smalley

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank

The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about. — Dean Martin

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts. — Harry S. Truman

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. — Robert Frost

I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord. — Billy Graham

We are born with happiness, we are intrinsically happy creatures but we become unhappy because our egos create desire. The desire pulls us out of the moment. So something is missing right now then we chase that and we wonder why we are unhappy. — Naval Ravikant

Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle. — Mother Meera

This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn. — Bernard Devoto

I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor. — Genevieve Bell

Unforgettable Moments Quotes

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! — Fernando Pessoa

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions. — David Attenborough

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia. — Milan Kundera

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that. — Marcel Pagnol

If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset. — David Brooks

I really value unforgettable moments. Things you can tell people about. We have too few of them in our lives, and it is all too seldom that we can create one such moment for a stranger. — Gene Weingarten

I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments. — Sete Gibernau

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you. — Nicole Krauss

This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next. — Michelle Moran

Precious Love Quotes

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. — Marcus Aurelius

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. — J. G. Holland

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. — Paulo Coelho

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness. — Pope John XXIII

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! — Hafez

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. — John Lennon

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? — Walt Whitman

Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great. — Julia Roberts

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More Precious Moments Quotes

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. — Sogyal Rinpoche

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within. — Will Durant

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be. — Nhat Hanh

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God. — Rumi

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift. — Steven Pinker

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going. — Jim Valvano

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. — Boris Yeltsin

To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of a grateful heart recognizing its identity with Christ in death, burial, and resurrection. Many of us look back to the moment when we were thus baptized as one of the most precious experiences we have ever known. — Henry Allen Ironside

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day. — Kent Nerburn

Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out. Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment. Breathing out, I smile. Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day. Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day. — Nhat Hanh

Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn't guaranteed. And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or wisdom it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one. — Susan L. Taylor

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. — Benjamin Disraeli

Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to. — Brenda Shoshanna

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life. — Elizabeth Lesser

Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive. — Zelig Pliskin

Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. — Jim Valvano

One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas. — Derek Jarman

I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live. — Kathleen Hanna

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment. — Amelia Barr

Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are. — Eugene Delacroix

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile. — Deepak Chopra

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before. — Chris LeDoux

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now! — Ruth Ozeki

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. — Nhat Hanh

Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about. — Sayings

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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