Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.
Interpretation
Every moment is distinct and irreplaceable, emphasizing the uniqueness of time.
This quote by Pablo Casals highlights the value of each passing second, reminding us that every moment in our lives is singular and once-in-a-lifetime. It encourages appreciation for the present, as it signifies the importance of living fully in the now, recognizing that time is fleeting and each experience is without parallel in the vastness of the universe.
In practice
In a graduation speech to encourage students to appreciate their experiences.
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way.
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
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