Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.

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

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

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

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

And we'll never be as young as we are right now

Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it's happening.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

This is our one and only chance at mortal life - here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and non-existent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey - now.

I've never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They're all beautiful. They're like jewels, transient jewels.

Time never stood still for me. It went too fast; that was the bad thing about it!

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

The only time you'll ever have is now.