The whole message of the Course is: do not wait. In other words, salvation is offered to you this instant; be vigilant! Watch your mind. Be as attentive as you can this very instant. And the Course does not give specifics, like if this arises, do tha...
All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too. As I thought more about it in the bleak days and weeks that followed, I decided the Bible h...
La he amado desde el instante en que la vi.
Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.
I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
I'm an instant star, just add water.
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used to perform, such as in Cirque du Soleil and other traveling troops, there is no need to parade animals...
People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't th...
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.