#moment

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. ↗

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#fellows #his #lie #man #moment

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#eat #enjoy #friends #i #life

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#any #daughters #day #ever #happens

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment. ↗

— Annette Bening

#always #bottle #catch #feel #find

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#fortune #good #good fortune #moment #more

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#director #film #fragments #moments #same

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#change #does #escape #every #however

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past. ↗