Moments - Quotes
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could have never foreseen.
There are dizzying moments in life when we see everything clearly, when we are aware of our power and our potential, when we see what it is we have been too timid or cowardly to do. These are life’s decisive moments. They come to us unannounced, like death or conversion.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.