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
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