“Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.” ThinkingFeelsSometimesMomentsClearPerfectionIllness Author:Tom Ford
“Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.” I CanMomentsHandsEyePainFacesNextHoursChallengesBreakToo MuchPiecesSadnessLonelinessTasksHorseSizeIllnessHandleBitesHands UpSmall PiecesBlinders Author:Regina Brett
“Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.” MomentsGamesSportsWrittenOkayIllnessRejectionPrisonerOvercoming Rejection Author:Lance Armstrong
“Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.” PeopleRealReasonMomentsJobsJoyDifficultChanceLossMysteryWake UpIllnessDivorceRadicalDifficult TimesWake Up CallJob Loss Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?” IfsChildrenLongMomentsBodyTodayDeathGoneWindowLogicPreparedIllnessStormYesterdayBrokeWhy NotWarningTroopsSmall ChildBaffled Author:Jeanette Winterson