#moment

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked. ↗

— Amy Smart

#best #enjoying #getting #gift #heads

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clear #create #creativity #design #fashion-designer

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#art #creativity #epiphanic-moment #epiphany #inspirational

Imagine you're so far away no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you couldn't stop the world for a moment. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#imagine #no-matter-what-you-say #no-metter-what-you-do #sara-quin #stop-the-world-for-a-moment

You're maybe eighteen. Your mother didn't love you enough so you decided to pierce your lip and brand your body to piss her off. You hang around this band because they make you feel like you belong. And most days you wish you were in a band of your own, but you know that probably will never happen." I met his eyes waiting. I'm twenty. my mother has an assload of tattoos herself, she thinks its art. I have a lip ring because it turns girls on when I do this." He licked his lip, lingering on the metal for a couple intense seconds. My eyes fluttered with nervousness. ↗

— Holly Hood

#love #love-story #memorable #music #wit

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere. ↗

— André Aciman

#monet #my-monet-moment #travel #art

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#daily #die #life #live #moment

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#humor #live-in-the-moment #business