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"My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire."
"There are no friends; only moments of friendship."
"We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals."
"Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment."
"Every moment had its pleasure and its hope."
"Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don’t let life slip by unnoticed."
"At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is."
"Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore."
"Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment."
"Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else."
"What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment."
"Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come."
"I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment."
"Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy."
"Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete."
"The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it"
"Every moment is made glorious by the light of love."
"Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained."
"The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything."
"Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself."
