Precious Moments of Life

Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it’s only given to us moment by moment.

                                                            -Amelia Barr

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

                                                            -Cesare Pavese

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

                                                            -Corita Kent

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

                                                            -Johann Kaspar Lavater

I live now and only now, a I will do what I want to do this moment, and not what I decided was for me yesterday.        

                                                            -Hugh Prather

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

                                                            -Benjamin Disraeli

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

                                                            -Sherwood Anderson

Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than great sorrow ten years gone.

                                                            -Samuel Butler

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

                                                            -Boethe

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.          

                                                            -Tennessee Williams

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand… and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before its too late.

                                                            -Marie Beynon Ray

It is privilege of living to be…acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

                                                            -Marya Mannes

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.

                                                            -Henry David Thoreau

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it

                                                            -W. Somerset Maugham

Problems

EVERYONE HAS PROBLEMS

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.

                                                                -Bernard M. Barach

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other, he is limited by circumstances.

                                                                        -Blair

Every path has its puddle.

                                                                        -English proverb

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone mist take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

                                                                        -Socrates

IDENTIFYING REAL PROBLEMS

A problem well stated is a problem half solve.

-    Charles F. Kettering

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

-         Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

-         Joseph Farrell

SEVERAL WAYS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

-         Dr. Frank Crane

When I feel difficulty coming, I switch to another book I’m writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved.

-         Isaac Asimov

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard working. Never be fainthearted. Be resolute. But never bitter….. Permit no one to dissuade you from pursuing the goals you set for yourself. Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.

-         Ralph J. Bunch

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