Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn't.
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving
The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house!
The moment we become uncomfortable is the time we should confess.
Whatever it takes to get you where you need to be, there's nothing wrong with the method acting or having to growl and bang your head in a corner and get into the moment and work yourself into a lather - if that's what it takes, so be it.
Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.
One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!
Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the best you can and do without when necessary, and hope to God you won't be wiped out by something you can't control. But there are moments it hurts, where there is something you want in the very marrow of your bones and you know there is no way you can have it.
The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.
Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for.
You've been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its size, shape, color, or any imagined infirmities, you can honor the temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs, and treating it with dignity and love.
Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.
I get to stay active and that is my job at the moment, so I can't complain.
