"I like creating these moments where there's this dichotomy between something that repels you but is still so attractive that you can't stop looking. You still want to acquire it; there's still that level of aspiration for the image of the figure or the person you're looking at. when you look at the work there's this, "Oh it's really beautifully rendered!" or, "I love those beautiful tones." There's some aspect that's really attractive but the image itself could be slightly distributing."
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"Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this."
"Enjoy the moment, because that is all you have. You never are going to arrive someplace else. You are in a constant state of living in this moment, and that is the only arrival there is. In fact, you will arrive when you stop trying to get someplace else."
"Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary."
"Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment."
"When you're connected to God, every moment is perfectly perfect."
"Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment."
"The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now."
"Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else."
"...this moment... is the only physical reality you have."
"When we meditate, we are really trying to go beyond the mind. What I have found is that if I can get totally and completely into the moment, then the mind disappears. And as the mind disappears, that's when God appears."
"Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day."
"He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control."
"The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours."
"Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late."
"Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment."
"What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?"
"that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time."
"I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter."
"Of every moment I've ever not-lived through, this one is the best"