Fleeting Moments Quotes

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Rose Kennedy

Inspirational, Life, Change

Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

Tennessee Williams

Art, Fleeting, Moments

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

Ashley Montagu

Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”

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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Reality, Joy

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Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.

Michael Kenna

Photography, Forever, Gone

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My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.

Omar Khayyam

Love, Sexy, Thinking

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis

Inspirational, Happy Birthday, Inspiring

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We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.

Alex Gaskarth

Mistake, Grateful, Thinking

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To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees – these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.

Brené Brown

Gratitude, Pain, Believe

"The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

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It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

Andrew Wyeth

Creative, Fleeting, Frozen

Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”

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The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Allen Ginsberg

Floating, Fleeting, World

Aperture, Richard Avedon, Eric Fischl, Allen Ginsberg (1985). “The Human Street: Photographs”, Aperture

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The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

Frederick Lenz

Reality, Fleeting, Body

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We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Photography, Fleeting, World

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Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

A. A. Milne

Happiness, Happy, Thinking

A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.133, Egmont UK

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Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

Rose Kennedy

Memories, Inspirational Life, Matter

Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.

Pierre de Ronsard

Inspirational, Life, Believe

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And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.

Nicholas Sparks

Summer, Firefly, Air

Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.43, Hachette UK

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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspiring, Dream, Reality

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Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Corita Kent

Life, Motivational, Positive

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It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Tony Robbins

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 08, 2016

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He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

Mary Balogh

Blue, Sky, Heaven

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People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Mark Ruffalo

Funny Things, People, Serious

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Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Charlie Sheen

Moments

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They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.

Miki Dora

Life, Time, Choices

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Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Eugene Kennedy

Friendship, Real Friends, Simple

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