"Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her."
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"Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness."
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"Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man."
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"What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit."
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"I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment."
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"Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources will be equal to the moment."
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"O aching time! O moments big as years!"
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"I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you."
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"Leave everything for one moment, in unending time and just be. This is the majesty of Being"
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"She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind."
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"The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future."
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"The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again."
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"A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life"
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"The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence."
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"Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home."
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"You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future."
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"Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it."
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"True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering."
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"To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment."
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"Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents."
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