Moments

Quotes on moments.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
- Dr. Seuss

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.
- Dr. Seuss

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
- Rumi

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
- Jim Morrison

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
- Helen Keller

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
—Ashley Montagu

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
- Nelson Mandela