“Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.” FeelsWritingMomentsStoriesRealityCoursesMemoriesBoysDegreesUnderstoodAdamConvincing Author:Amelie Nothomb
“The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.” WayMomentsOne ThingResearchUnderstoodParkinsonParkinson's Author:Michael J. Fox
“I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?” ThinkingKnowsRealMomentsProcessDecisionPercentUnderstoodArtisticSeatsPantsIntuitiveArtistic Process Author:George Saunders
“The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.” WorldHumansIdeasMomentsLawPurposeFatherHeavenChristHuman NatureThis WorldDemandUnderstoodWork OutMissionsRedemptionSubstitutesOfferingAtonement Author:R. C. Sproul
“My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.” MayMomentsWould BePastOrderTurnsMy OwnStageDevelopmentUnderstoodPossessionHorizonPrecarious Book:Phenomenology of Perception Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.” DoneMomentsGivenCan DoPrinciplesChangedColorPrayingLetting GoUnderstoodSurrenderReleaseThat MomentPurpleChanged My Life Author:Oprah Winfrey
“How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.” HardMomentsSeemsSorrowPromiseUnderstoodShiningScriptureVersesStanding OutSplendorSunbeams Author:Horatius Bonar
“Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when the senses shiver and shudder, it is only a fool and and an irreverent person that will keep his distance, who will not embrace the good cause, marching towards the conquest of pleasures and passions. All of morality's laws - poorly understood and applied - are nil and cannot stand even for a moment, when the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners.” PersonsMomentsLawPassionSpeakCausesPleasureResponsibilityFoolMoralityUnderstoodEmbraceDistanceGuiltSensesConquestParadesBannerShiverGood CausesIrreverent Author:C.P. Cavafy
“Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.” MomentsPerfectSilenceOughtUnderstoodMysteriousDelicateSecrecyPietyDelicacyFriendship LoveRare Moments Author:Novalis