Golden Moments Quotes:

The golden moment when I’m not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.

- Sonya Sones

topic: Golden Moments, Remember, Forget

The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

- Cyril Connolly

source: Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

topic: Pain, Golden Moments, Pleasure

Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.817, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Procrastination, Golden Moments, Delay

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

- William James

topic: Life, Positive, Art, Great Opportunity, Golden Moments

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.210, 谷月社

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Life Opportunity, Angelic

Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.

- George Arnold

source: George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.123

topic: Beer, Dry, Golden, Golden Moments, Sipping

You are doing something very sacred here, something very daring, during your life upon the earth. You are defining yourself, and then creating yourself anew, in each golden moment of now.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Life, Creating, Earth, Define Yourself, Creating Yourself

I don't take anything for granted. I've been given extraordinary opportunities, I've also fought for extraordinary opportunities. So I don't believe you're ever just there in this golden moment. You probably always have to remind people that you're there, that you have something to offer, maybe something beyond what they could imagine for you.

- Anne Hathaway

source: "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her SAG Wardrobe Malfunction at Oscars Luncheon" by Shannon Vestal Robson, www.popsugar.com. February 4, 2013.

topic: Believe, Opportunity, People, Don't Take Anything For Granted, Golden Moments

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Golden, Fool, Praying, Golden Moments

Into each of our lives come golden moments of adversity. This painful friend breaks our hearts, drops us to our knees, and makes us realize we are nothing without our Lord and Savior. This friend makes us plead all the night long for reassurance and into the next day and sometimes for weeks and months. But, ultimately, just as surely as the day follows the night, as we remain true and faithful, this strange friend, adversity, leads us straight into the outstretched arms of the Savior.

- Glenn L. Pace

topic: Adversity, Heart, Night, Golden Moments

He slouched back in his seat, looking tired, and leaned his face on his shoulder to look at me while he played with my hair. He started to hum a song, and then, after a few bars, he sang it. Quietly, sort of half-sung, half-spoken, incredibly gentle. I didn’t catch all the words, but it was about his summer girl. Me. Maybe his forever girl. His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an icecovered landscape like a single bubble of summer nectar, I could see how my life could be stretched out in front of me.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.248, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Summer, Girl, Song, Golden Moments

The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

- Shannon Hale

topic: Spring, Night, Light, Golden Moments

The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Vegetables, Broken, Golden, Future Life, Golden Moments