Best Moment Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Eureka" can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen idea or the expression of a magic moment that throws us into a new world. It acts like a radiant sunbeam that comes out of the blue and illuminates a dim past, opening a new, dynamic horizon. It may even be a trivial but lucky encounter with new friends, who let us be what we are in our imagination: original and undifferentiated. (“Waiting for Eureka” )”

“So assume this: "The moment you met them, they became your friends.”

Friends Moment This Assume

Book:How to Talk to Anyone

Source: How to Talk to Anyone

“What broke your heart so bad That you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soul And can't utter the word 'love' anymore?”

“An essential ingredient to hygge is the boundary that marks a place or delineates a moment - a fence, a circle of cushions or a stolen half hour.”

Embrace Shelter Moment Place Hygge Essential Enclosure

Book:The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“If you reflect upon your own highest moments or peak experiences. You will probably also remember them as moments of great pleasure, even ecstasy.”

Pleasure Experience Ecstasy Moment Peak

Book:The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance

Source: The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance

“...to hold twilight or watch it darken, describes the pleasure we take in pausing to observe as day slips into night. To stand at our window, wrapped in the half-dark and watch the day disappear... is a moment of hygge.”

Night Pleasure Twilight Day Moment Hygge Watch Observe Pause Darken

Book:The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“Hygge is evoked in situations where there is nothing to accomplish but letting go to the present moment in a way that's more aligned to simple pleasure than deep reflection.”

Simple Pleasure Present Moment Hygge

Book:The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“Hygge happens when we commit to the pleasure of the present moment in its simplicity. It's there in the things we do that give everyday life value and meaning, that comfort us, make us feel at home, rooted and generous.”

Life Pleasure Comfort Simplicity Value Commit Generous Present Moment Hygge

Book:The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience? Is it odd that I wish to witness you with new eyes so I may have the pleasure of falling for you all over again? I am grateful, so grateful, for knowing the meaning of your various sighs. For being the cause of your ecstatic cries. But, if only for a moment, I wish to let you fall out of my hands so that I may catch you again. You, my love, are the oddity. You are my exception.”

“The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.”

“You can't have a women's body without having her heart, mind and soul if only momentarily.”

Love Mind Heart Soul Body Sex Women Pleasure Woman Moment Losing Control

Book:Just the Way I Feel

Source: Just the Way I Feel

“When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desires.”

“The same unceasing drive was something displayed by Russell, Puyol, Berra, Richard, and every other captain in Tier One. Early struggles culminated in a defining moment, a breakthrough that left no doubt about their desire to win at any cost. And in each case, after they had established this fact, their teams began to turn the corner. The pattern was so consistent that it suggested their doggedness might, in fact, have been contagious.”

Desire Struggle Doubt Cost Moment Breakthrough Contagious Captain Tier One

Book:The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams

Source: The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams

“No multitude of words could have been more significant than those moments of silence, or more pregnant with the first-felt throbbings of desire.”

Desire Silence Moment

Book:The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“There is a simple fidelity to the moment that we experience through hygge. ...we adjust our surroundings to guide our energy and desire. Hygge pays attention to the concerns of the human spirit, turning us towards a manner of living that priorities simple pleasure, friendship and connection above consumption.”

Desire Energy Experience Simplicity Moment Fidelity Guide Hygge Adjust Surrounding

Book:The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“What is this love that makes me see beauty, and makes every beautiful thing bring you back to me? What is this love that makes me declare 'I love you' even though I uttered it only a moment ago? What is this love that keeps growing even when my chest is sore and it hurts to love you any more? Tell me: How am I to find what this love is when it was the one to find you, me, this verse, and this universe?”

“...perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they would not have known without it, and will give to those two dead souls, brought to life in a second, the rapid and divine sensation of this intoxication, of this madness which gives to lovers more happiness in an instant than other men can gather during a whole lifetime.”

Love Happiness Desire Passion Lovers Longing Lifetime Thrill Moment Intoxication Madness

Author:Guy de Maupassant

“The moment you realize that no matter how far away in the sea you look for the love you desire, it is impossible for you to reach it without exploring the deepness within, then you will either walk on the surface or sink deeply. The light will guide you nevertheless.”

Love Inspirational Light Spiritual Desire Sea Surface Moment Walk Explore Guide Deepness Sink

Author:Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache

“Die eine Bedingung, die ich an das Leben stelle, ist nicht, für immer geliebt zu werden, sondern die schlichte Gewissheit, es zumindest für einen kurzen Moment gewesen zu sein.”

Emotion Moment Liebe Leben Sehnsucht Erinnerung Vergänglichkeit Gewissheit Zuneigung Bedingung

Author:Laura Chouette

“The one condition I place upon life is not to be loved forever, but the simple certainty of having been loved, if only for a brief moment.”

Love Life Emotion Longing Memory Affection Certainty Moment Transience Condition

Author:Laura Chouette

“Nothing remains till the end of time. Take delight in what you have while you have it, for all, it is.. a moment's delight yet to find the eternal in the joy slipping away...”

Life Inspirational Joy Emotion Eternal Moment

Author:Jayita Bhattacharjee

“How the sun dies a little at the hour of sunset yet leaves the sky with colors. It's the parting moment that breaks loose the carefully held emotions.”

Life Inspirational Joy Emotion Sun Sky Sunset Moment

Author:Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Recollecting the treasured memories.... strengthens the shared meaning .... and builds deeper emotional connection...it is a relational way of reminiscing the olden memories...By opening them again with the other....it becomes a throwback to the forgotten past....but as you gather those times...it becomes a shared moment cuddling by the fire...for no longer are they memories frozen mutely in time...rather a melting past revived to savor a lifeless relationship....”

Love Life Inspirational Emotion Share Memory Connection Moment

Author:Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally, we'd all finished with Claire and were ready to go, but no one wanted to disturb them, so we stood watching as Fiona pulled away from Hugh, shook a few seeds from her nest of wild hair, and grew a rose bush heavy with red flowers right where they stood. Hugh's bees rushed to pollinate it, and while they were occupied– as if she'd done it just so they could have a moment to themselves– Fiona embraced him and whispered something in his ear, and Hugh nodded and whispered.”

Love Friendship Emotion Farewell Moment

Book:Library of Souls

Source: Library of Souls

“Love, one way or the other, in whatever form, matters every moment in life.”

Love Life Inspiration Emotion Feeling Moment

Author:Shampa Sharma

“Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.”

“If you've ever tried to keep a diary, then you'll know that the problem of trying to write about the past really starts in the present: No matter how fast you write, you're always stuck in the then and you can never catch up to what's happening now, which means that now is pretty much doomed to extinction.”

Philosophy Past Time Nostalgia Present Moment Present Moment Now Diary Diarykeeping

Book:A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

“The awareness in the moment serves you the most when you are about to create your imagination into a reality.”

Reality Imagination Awareness Moment Create

Author:Roshan Sharma

“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ("A Father's Story")”

Imagination Despair Day Moment

Book:Selected Stories of Andre Dubus

Source: Selected Stories of Andre Dubus

“Sacred-thoughts flashes in your mind at sacred-time. If you don’t write it immediately, it will be forgotten.”

Thinking Writing Mind Imagination Education Creativity Advice Thoughts Self Awareness Self Discovery Lailah Gifty Akita Affirmations Moment Write

Book:Think Great: Be Great!